IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 39 
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the freedom, security, and 
stability of Taiwan. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 13, 2011 
Mr. ANDREWS (for himself and Mr. GARRETT) 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 the re-
lationship has been of enormous economic, cultural, and 
strategic advantage to both countries, the region and the 
world; 
Whereas the United States has vital security and strategic in-
terests in the Taiwan Strait, with United States Armed 
Forces 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 Government of the 
People’s Republic of China of over 1,400 short- and me-
dium-range ballistic missiles targeted at Taiwan; 
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•HCON 39 IH 
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 (109th Congress), passed by the 
House of Representatives on March 16, 2005; 
Whereas House Concurrent Resolution 98 (109th Congress) 
states that the anti-secession law seeks ‘‘to create a legal 
framework for possible use of force against Taiwan’’ and 
that it constitutes ‘‘a unilateral change to the status quo 
in the Taiwan Strait’’; 
Whereas a 2009 Department of Defense report on the mili-
tary power of the Government 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, China’s armed forces are rap-
idly developing coercive capabilities for the purpose of de-
terring Taiwan’s pursuit of de jure independence’’; 
Whereas the report also states that ‘‘[t]hese same capabilities 
could in the future be used to pressure Taiwan toward 
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 Select Committee on In-
telligence of the Senate, stated that ‘‘[p]reparations for 
a possible Taiwan conflict continue to drive the mod-
ernization goals of the People’s Liberation Army and the 
Chinese defense-industrial complex’’; 
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•HCON 39 IH 
Whereas on January 21, 2010, the Defense Intelligence 
Agency (DIA) completed a report on the current condi-
tion of the air force of the Government of Taiwan and 
concludes that, ‘‘although Taiwan has nearly 400 combat 
aircraft in service, far fewer of these are operationally ca-
pable’’; 
Whereas on August 16, 2010, the U.S. Department of De-
fense issued a report titled ‘‘Military and Security Devel-
opments involving the People’s Republic of China’’, in 
which it noted that in spite of the ongoing rapproche-
ment, the PRC is continuing its military buildup and 
missile deployment aimed at Taiwan, leading to a further 
deterioration of the military balance across the Taiwan 
Strait; 
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, 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 of the United States to resist any resort to 
force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the 
security, or the social 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— 
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•HCON 39 IH 
(1) grave concerns exist concerning the contin-
ued deployment by the Government of the People’s 
Republic of China of over 1,400 ballistic missiles di-
rected toward Taiwan, which threaten security and 
stability in the Taiwan Strait; 
(2) the President should seek a public and un-
equivocal renunciation from the leaders of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China of any threat or use of force 
against Taiwan and the region; 
(3) the future of Taiwan should be determined 
peacefully by the people of Taiwan and free from co-
ercion by the Government of the People’s Republic 
of China; and 
(4) the President should take immediate steps 
to redress the deteriorating balance of airpower 
noted by the 2010 DOD’s annual report on China’s 
military power, and move forward expeditiously with 
the sale to Taiwan of new F–16 C/D aircraft and 
upgrades of the existing F–16 A/B fleet. 
Æ 
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