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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2511 
To prohibit the availability of foreign assistance to certain countries that 
do not recognize the sovereignty of Taiwan, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 6, 2023 
Mr. OGLES (for himself, Mr. TIFFANY, Mrs. BOEBERT, Mr. BRECHEEN, Mrs. 
MILLER of Illinois, and Mr. MOORE of Alabama) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To prohibit the availability of foreign assistance to certain 
countries that do not recognize the sovereignty of Tai-
wan, 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 ‘‘Defund China’s Allies 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The global political influence campaign of 
the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has contrib-
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uted to numerous countries in Central America and 
the Caribbean switching political allegiances from 
Taiwan to China over the past several years. 
(2) Costa Rica was the first Central American 
country to abandon a political relationship with Tai-
wan in 2007. Panama chose to recognize the PRC 
in 2017. El Salvador chose to cut ties with Taiwan 
in 2018, over the latter’s unwillingness to fund a fi-
nancially unsustainable port. The Dominican Repub-
lic abandoned Taiwan that same year. In December 
2021, the dictatorial Marxist government of Daniel 
Ortega chose to sever ties with Taiwan, and in 
March 2023, President Castro of Honduras, a fellow 
Marxist, chose to do the same thing. 
(3) Given the proximity of these countries to 
the United States, these switches in political alle-
giances necessarily represent a more tangible threat 
to United States national security interests and 
must be confronted. 
(4) United States efforts to condemn these 
countries’ willing diplomatic shift toward a genocidal 
government is undermined by an incomprehensible 
adherence to the so-called ‘‘One China’’ policy, on 
terms dictated by the Chinese Communist Party. 
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(5) To pose a credible deterrence threat to the 
People’s Republic of China, the United States must 
first admit that the continuation of anachronistic 
foreign policy—based on the idea that the Chinese 
Communist Party is a responsible, good faith 
actor—is no longer a reasonable or even rational 
course of action. To that end, the United States 
must support full diplomatic relations with Taiwan 
and Taiwan’s full and unmitigated membership into 
the international community. 
(6) Good-faith assumptions about the Chinese 
Communist Party that have lingered since the 1970s 
have proven false. China has demonstrated its un-
willingness to work collaboratively with the inter-
national community, including through its efforts to 
hijack the global market and the rules-based inter-
national order. China’s continued assault on the nat-
ural rights of the individual—including through the 
ongoing genocide of the Uyghurs and other popu-
lations—highlight Beijing’s cruelty and its indiffer-
ence to the concept of basic human decency. 
(7) The Chinese Communist Party has repeat-
edly utilized violence and the threat of violence to co-
erce Taiwan and undermine Taiwan’s democratically 
elected government, in clear contradiction of existing 
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United States law (the Taiwan Relations Act), which 
reads: ‘‘the United States decision to establish diplo-
matic relations with the People’s Republic of China 
rests upon the expectation that the future of Taiwan 
will be determined by peaceful means’’. 
(8) The CCP’s ongoing efforts to delegitimize 
Taiwan, if not checked, increases the risk of armed 
conflict by threatening to completely isolate Taiwan 
from any political support; as a result, the United 
States government must work to deter these malign 
efforts and mitigate their effectiveness, including by 
committing to the following: 
(A) Establishing full diplomatic ties with 
Taiwan. 
(B) Imposing restrictions on foreign assist-
ance on countries, particularly those in the 
Western Hemisphere, who choose to offer full 
political support to the People’s Republic of 
China. 
(C) Working with allies and partners who 
maintain unofficial relations with Taiwan (in-
cluding through Representative offices) to pur-
sue full diplomatic relations with Taiwan. 
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SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that not later than 30 
days after the enactment of this Act, the President should 
establish full diplomatic relations with Taiwan. 
SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, with respect to each country listed in sub-
section (c), no Federal funds may be made available in 
the form of foreign assistance (including humanitarian as-
sistance or security assistance) to such country during the 
period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act 
and ending on the date described in subsection (b) for 
such country. 
(b) TERMINATION.—The date described in this sub-
section, with respect to a country, is the earlier of— 
(1) the date that is 30 days after the date on 
which the President certifies to the Congress that 
such country has resumed or established full diplo-
matic relations with Taiwan; or 
(2) the date that is 10 years after the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
(c) COUNTRIES SPECIFIED.—The countries listed in 
this subsection are the following: 
(1) Honduras. 
(2) Nicaragua. 
(3) Dominica. 
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(4) Antigua and Barbuda. 
(5) Grenada. 
(6) Cuba. 
(7) Bahamas. 
(8) Barbados. 
(9) Jamaica. 
(10) Trinidad and Tobago. 
(11) Panama. 
(12) Costa Rica. 
(13) The Dominican Republic. 
(14) El Salvador. 
(15) Bolivia. 
(16) Uruguay. 
(17) Guyana. 
(18) Suriname. 
(19) Venezuela. 
(20) Solomon Islands. 
(21) Kiribati. 
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