IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 200 
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the freedom, security, and 
stability of Taiwan. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 15, 2009 
Mr. ANDREWS submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the freedom, 
security, and stability of Taiwan. 
Whereas for over half a century a close relationship has ex-
isted between the United States and Taiwan, and such 
relationship has been of enormous economic, cultural, 
and strategic advantage to both countries; 
Whereas the United States has vital security and strategic in-
terests in the Taiwan Strait, with United States troops 
stationed in countries within the Taiwan Strait region; 
Whereas the security of the 23,000,000 people in Taiwan is 
threatened by the deployment by the People’s Republic of 
China of over 1,400 short- and medium-range ballistic 
missiles targeted at Taiwan; 
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Whereas the National People’s Congress of the People’s Re-
public of China passed an anti-secession law on March 
14, 2005, which was subsequently condemned by the 
United States House of Representatives in House Con-
current Resolution 98, passed by the House of Rep-
resentatives on March 16, 2005; 
Whereas such resolution states that the anti-secession law 
seeks ‘‘to create a legal framework for possible use of 
force against Taiwan’’ and that it constitutes ‘‘a unilat-
eral change to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait’’; 
Whereas a 2009 Pentagon report on the military power of 
the People’s Republic of China states that ‘‘[t]he PLA’s 
modernization vis-a`-vis Taiwan has continued over the 
past year, including its build-up of short-range missiles 
opposite the island’’, and that ‘‘[i]n the near-term, Chi-
na’s armed forces are rapidly developing coercive capa-
bilities for the purpose of deterring Taiwan’s pursuit of 
de jure independence’’; 
Whereas such report also states that ‘‘[t]hese same capabili-
ties could in the future be used to pressure Taiwan to-
ward a settlement of the cross-Strait dispute on Beijing’s 
terms while simultaneously attempting to deter, delay, or 
deny any possible U.S. support for the island in case of 
conflict’’; 
Whereas the Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Den-
nis Blair, in the 2009 Annual Threat Assessment of the 
Intelligence Community for the Senate Select Committee 
on Intelligence, stated that ‘‘[p]reparations for a possible 
Taiwan conflict continue to drive the modernization goals 
of the People’s Liberation Army and the Chinese defense- 
industrial complex’’; 
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Whereas section 2(b)(4) of the Taiwan Relations Act (22 
U.S.C. 3301(b)(4)), which is the cornerstone of United 
States-Taiwan relations, declares that it is the policy of 
the United States ‘‘to consider any effort to determine 
the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, in-
cluding by boycotts or embargoes, is a threat to the peace 
and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave 
concern to the United States’’; and 
Whereas section 2(b)(6) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 3301(b)(6)) 
declares it the policy of the United States ‘‘to maintain 
the capacity to resist any resort to force or other forms 
of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the so-
cial or economic system, of the people on Taiwan’’: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) grave concerns exist concerning the contin-
ued deployment by the People’s Republic of China of 
over 1,400 ballistic missiles directed toward Taiwan, 
which threaten security and stability in the Taiwan 
Strait; 
(2) the President of the United States should 
seek a public and unequivocal renunciation from the 
leaders of the People’s Republic of China of any 
threat or use of force against Taiwan; and 
(3) the future of Taiwan should be determined 
free from coercion by the People’s Republic of 
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China, peacefully, and with the express consent of 
the people of Taiwan. 
Æ 
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