| HCON 22 IH 106th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. CON. RES. 22
Providing that the President should seek a public
renunciation by the People's Republic of China of any use of force, or threat to use
force, against Taiwan, and that the United States should help Taiwan in case of threats or
a military attack by the People's Republic of China.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 3, 1999
Mr. ANDREWS (for himself and Mr. CHABOT) submitted the
following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International
Relations
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Providing that the President should seek a public
renunciation by the People's Republic of China of any use of force, or threat to use
force, against Taiwan, and that the United States should help Taiwan in case of threats or
a military attack by the People's Republic of China.
Whereas in March of 1996 the political leadership of the
People's Republic of China used provocative military maneuvers, including missile launch
exercises in the Taiwan Strait, in an attempt to intimidate the people of Taiwan during
their historic, free, and democratic presidential elections;
Whereas the People's Republic of China refuses to renounce
the use of force against Taiwan;
Whereas the House of Representatives passed a resolution
by a vote of 411-0 in June 1998 urging the President to seek, during his July 1998 summit
meeting in Beijing, a public renunciation by the People's Republic of China of any use of
force, or threat of use of force, against democratic Taiwan;
Whereas senior United States executive branch officials
have called upon the People's Republic of China to renounce the use of force against
Taiwan;
Whereas the use of force, and the threat to use force, by
the People's Republic of China against Taiwan threatens peace and stability in the region;
Whereas the Taiwan Relations Act, enacted in 1979, states
that `[i]t is the policy of the United States . . . to consider any effort to determine
the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by boycotts or embargoes, a
threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the
United States'; and
Whereas the Taiwan Relations Act states that it is the
policy of the United States to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character: Now,
therefore, be it
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