IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 219
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding enhanced security for Taiwan. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 27, 2005
Mr. ANDREWS submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on International Relations 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding enhanced 
security for Taiwan.
Whereas for over half a century a close relationship has ex-
isted between the United States and Taiwan which has 
been of enormous economic, cultural, and strategic ad-
vantage to both countries; 
Whereas Taiwan today is a full-fledged democracy with a vi-
brant economy and a vigorous multi-party political sys-
tem that respects human rights and the rule of law and 
is an ally of the United States; 
Whereas the security of the 23 million people in Taiwan is 
threatened by the deployment by the People’s Republic of 
China of over 700 short-range ballistic missiles targeted 
at Taiwan, and the purchase by China of advanced weap-
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onry systems, including Su-27 and Su-30 fighter planes, 
Kilo submarines, and Sovremenny destroyers; 
Whereas in a July 19, 2005 report, the Department of De-
fense stated that ‘‘[t]he cross-Strait balance of power is 
shifting towards Beijing . . . Chinese air, naval and mis-
sile force modernization is increasing demands on Taiwan 
to develop countermeasures that would enable it to avoid 
being quickly overwhelmed’’; 
Whereas this report stated that military objectives of the 
People’s Republic of China include building counters to 
third-parties, including potential United States interven-
tion in cross-Strait crises, and that Chinese preparations 
come against the background of a policy toward Taiwan 
that espouses ‘‘peaceful’’ reunification; 
Whereas Taiwan was threatened by missile exercises con-
ducted by the People’s Republic of China in August 1995 
and again in March 1996 when Taiwan was conducting 
its first free and direct presidential elections; 
Whereas section 2(b)(4) of the Taiwan Relations Act (22 
U.S.C. 3301(b)(4)) considers ‘‘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’’; 
Whereas section 2(b)(6) of the Taiwan Relations Act (22 
U.S.C. 3301(b)(6)) requires the United States ‘‘to main-
tain the capacity . . . 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’’; 
Whereas United States generals and flag officers are not al-
lowed to visit Taiwan and meet their Taiwanese counter-
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parts regularly on a self-imposed prohibition by the Gov-
ernment of the United States and this lack of high-level 
regular military contacts will compromise an effective 
contingency plan when the United States responds to a 
potential cross-Strait crisis; and 
Whereas the July 14, 2005, comments by General Zhu 
Chenghu of the People’s Republic of China advocating 
the use of nuclear weapons against the United States are 
both damaging to relations between the United States 
and China and a violation of China’s commitment to re-
solve its differences with Taiwan peacefully: Now, there-
fore, 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 
hundreds of ballistic missiles directed toward Tai-
wan, which threaten the security and stability in the 
Taiwan Strait; 
(2) the President should direct all appropriate 
officials of the Government of the United States to 
raise these concerns with the appropriate officials 
from the People’s Republic of China, and should 
seek a public, immediate, and unequivocal renunci-
ation from the leaders of the People’s Republic of 
China of any threat or use of force against Taiwan; 
(3) the President should abolish all restrictions 
on visits by United States military high-level officials
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to Taiwan to help safeguard United States security 
interests in the region; 
(4) the President should authorize the sale of 
the Aegis system to Taiwan, which would enable 
Taiwan to defend itself against the threat of a mis-
sile attack by the People’s Republic of China; and 
(5) the future of Taiwan should be determined 
free from coercion by the People’s Republic of 
China, peacefully, and with the express consent of 
the people of Taiwan through a democratic mecha-
nism such as a referendum.
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