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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2113 
To require agencies to use the term ‘‘Taiwan’’ instead of ‘‘Chinese Taipei’’, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 14, 2025 
Mr. DONALDS (for himself, Mr. COLLINS, Mr. TIFFANY, and Mr. MOORE of 
Alabama) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To require agencies to use the term ‘‘Taiwan’’ instead of 
‘‘Chinese Taipei’’, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘America Supports Tai-
wan Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds as follows: 
(1) The United States Government has never 
officially recognized the People’s Republic of China’s 
claim of sovereignty over Taiwan. 
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(2) The People’s Republic of China, led by the 
Chinese Communist Party, seeks to control Taiwan 
through means of persuasion and coercion, and po-
tentially compellence. 
(3) The People’s Liberation Army seeks to have 
the capability to invade Taiwan by 2027, the 100th 
anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Com-
munist Party’s military, the People’s Liberation 
Army. 
(4) The People’s Republic of China refers to 
Taiwan as a ‘‘region’’ and to the President of Tai-
wan as ‘‘the leader of the Taiwan region’’, consistent 
with its assertion that Taiwan is a region of the 
People’s Republic of China. 
(5) Taiwan and mainland China are separated 
by a ‘‘median line’’ in the Taiwan Strait, which acts 
as an unofficial boundary that was generally re-
spected from 1999, until September 2020, when a 
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman stated, ‘‘there 
is no so-called median line in the Strait’’, and Peo-
ple’s Liberation Army aircraft and vessels have re-
peatedly crossed the median line since then, as more 
than 1,400 PRC aircraft reportedly crossed the me-
dian line in 2024. 
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(6) An accounting, based on Taiwan Ministry of 
National Defense reporting, of incursions into Tai-
wan’s de facto Air Defense Identification Zone by 
PRC military aircraft illustrates a sharp increase 
over time, with approximately 3,075 incursions in 
2024, up from approximately 390 in 2020, illus-
trating a more confrontational posture toward Tai-
wan and honing military capabilities required to con-
duct combat operations near Taiwan. 
(7) Many people of Taiwan see the ‘‘Chinese 
Taipei’’ nomenclature as a symbol of oppression 
from the People’s Republic of China, originally stem-
ming from an effort to find a way for both Taiwan 
and the People’s Republic of China to participate in 
the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics and the 
1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. 
(8) In Mandarin Chinese, Taiwan uses a 
version of ‘‘Chinese Taipei’’ in which ‘‘Chinese’’ is 
the cultural term ‘‘zhonghua’’ and does not have 
sovereignty connotations. 
(9) Comparatively, the Chinese-language trans-
lation of ‘‘Chinese Taipei’’ carries the connotation 
that Taiwan is culturally Chinese, and thus the 
English term can be easily misunderstood to connote 
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PRC possession of Taipei, and by extension, all of 
Taiwan. 
(b) PURPOSE.—It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the United States must stand firm in the 
commitments it made in the Taiwan Relations Act 
(22 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.), which declares that it is 
the policy of the United States to ‘‘maintain the ca-
pacity of the United States to resist any resort to 
force or other forms of coercion that would jeop-
ardize the security, or the social or economic system, 
of the people on Taiwan’’; 
(2) the United States Government continues to 
support Taiwan and enable it to maintain a suffi-
cient self-defense capability as it withstands control- 
seeking persuasion and coercion from an increas-
ingly aggressive People’s Republic of China; and 
(3) the United States Government disfavors the 
use of the ‘‘Chinese Taipei’’ nomenclature, and in-
stead favors the use of ‘‘Taiwan’’ so as to avoid con-
notations of possession with the ‘‘Chinese Taipei’’ 
term in English and support resolution of cross- 
Strait differences by peaceful means, free from coer-
cion, in a manner acceptable to the people on both 
sides of the Strait. 
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SEC. 3. AGENCY REQUIREMENT TO USE ‘‘TAIWAN’’. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The head of an agency may not 
use ‘‘Chinese Taipei’’ and shall use ‘‘Taiwan’’, except— 
(1) in historical context explaining the People’s 
Republic of China’s attempt to control Taiwan 
through persuasion and coercion; or 
(2) to the extent that the head of the agency 
is working on matters relating to Taiwan with an 
international organization at which Taiwan is a par-
ticipant under a different official name. 
(b) 
REQUIREMENT
TO
UPDATE
AGENCY 
WEBSITES.—Not later than 14 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the head of each agency shall en-
sure the website of the agency meets the requirements of 
this section. 
(c) AGENCY DEFINED.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 551 of title 5, United 
States Code. 
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