[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5630 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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.


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                    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

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                                 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 Representatives 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:
            (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 People's Republic of 
        China seeks to control Taiwan through means of persuasion and 
        coercion, and potentially compellance.
            (3) The People's Liberation Army has set a goal of 2027 to 
        have the capability to invade Taiwan, 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 Taiwan as ``the leader of 
        the Taiwan region'', illustrating 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.
            (6) Taiwan officially recorded 380 Chinese air incursions 
        into the Taiwanese Air Defense Identification Zone in 2020, 969 
        Chinese air incursions in 2021, and 1,115 Chinese air 
        incursions in 2022, illustrating a growing disregard to 
        Taiwan's sovereignty.
            (7) Many Taiwanese individuals see the ``Chinese Taipei'' 
        nomenclature as a symbol of oppression from the People's 
        Republic of China, of which originally stems 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 language, Taiwan uses a version of 
        ``Chinese Taipei'' in which ``Chinese'' is the cultural term 
        ``zhonghua'' and does not have sovereignty connotations. 
        Comparatively, the People'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 Congress--
            (1) believes the United States must stand firm in the 
        commitments it made in the Taiwan Relations 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 coercion from an increasingly 
        aggressive People's Republic of China; and
            (3) decries the United States Government's use of ``Chinese 
        Taipei'' nomenclature, but instead favors the use of 
        ``Taiwan,'' to ultimately exert the belief 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 ensure 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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