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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5630 
To require agencies to use the term ‘‘Taiwan’’ instead of ‘‘Chinese Taipei’’, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023 
Mr. DONALDS (for himself, Mr. MOORE of Alabama, Mr. SELF, Mr. TIFFANY, 
and Mr. MOYLAN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee 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 ‘‘Taiwan Identification 
Terminology and Label Enhancement Act’’ or the 
‘‘TITLE Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds as follows: 
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(1) The United States Government has never 
officially recognized the People’s Republic of China’s 
claim of sovereignty over Taiwan. 
(2) The Chinese Communist Party in the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China seeks to control Taiwan 
through means of persuasion and coercion, and po-
tentially compellance. 
(3) The People’s Liberation Army has set a 
goal of 2027 to have the capability to invade Tai-
wan, which also marks the 100-year anniversary of 
the People’s Liberation Army’s founding. 
(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’’, illus-
trating the People’s Republic of China’s mistaken 
view that Taiwan is a region of China. 
(5) Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China 
are separated by a ‘‘median line’’ in the Taiwan 
Strait, which acts as an unofficial boundary that has 
generally been respected since 1999, until September 
2020, when a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman 
stated, ‘‘there is no so-called median line in the 
Strait’’, and People’s Liberation Army aircraft and 
vessels have repeatedly violated since. 
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(6) Taiwan officially recorded 380 Chinese air 
incursions into the Taiwanese Air Defense Identi-
fication Zone in 2020, 969 Chinese air incursions in 
2021, and 1,115 Chinese air incursions in 2022, il-
lustrating a growing disregard to Taiwan’s sov-
ereignty. 
(7) Many Taiwanese individuals see the ‘‘Chi-
nese Taipei’’ nomenclature as a symbol of oppression 
from the People’s Republic of China, of which origi-
nally stems from an effort to find a way for both 
Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China to par-
ticipate in the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics 
and the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. 
(8) In Mandarin language, Taiwan uses a 
version of ‘‘Chinese Taipei’’ in which ‘‘Chinese’’ is 
the cultural term ‘‘zhonghua’’ and does not have 
sovereignty connotations. Comparatively, the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China uses a version of ‘‘Chinese 
Taipei’’ in which ‘‘Chinese’’ is ‘‘zhongguo’’ or 
‘‘China’’ which mistakenly implies that Taiwan is 
part of China. 
(b) PURPOSE.—It is the sense of Congress that Con-
gress— 
(1) believes the United States must stand firm 
in the commitments it made in the Taiwan Relations 
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Act (22 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.), which states that the 
United States must ‘‘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’’; 
(2) continues to support and defend Taiwan as 
it withstands control-seeking persuasion and coer-
cion from an increasingly aggressive People’s Repub-
lic of China; and 
(3) decries the United States Government’s use 
of ‘‘Chinese Taipei’’ nomenclature, but instead fa-
vors the use of ‘‘Taiwan,’’ to ultimately exert the be-
lief that Taiwan’s status must be resolved peacefully 
and include the wishes of the people of Taiwan. 
SEC. 3. AGENCY REQUIREMENT TO USE ‘‘TAIWAN’’. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—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) in the formal title of a Federal document. 
(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-
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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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