On May 5, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed two bills in support of the Republic of China: the Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act and the Taiwan International Solidarity Act.
The first asks the State Department to “remove outdated self-imposed restrictions on exchanges with Taiwan.” The second “counters China’s false sovereignty claims over Taiwan and its weaponization of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758.”
Resolution 2758
Passed on October 25, 1971, Resolution 2758 admitted the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations and kicked out the Republic of China without even mentioning the latter by name. The resolution served to “restore all its rights to the People’s Republic of China and to recognize the representatives of its Government as the only legitimate representatives of China to the United Nations, and to expel forthwith the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the place which they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations and in all the organizations related to it.”
The People’s Republic of China claims that Resolution 2758 also constitutes adoption of the PRC’s One China Principle and that member states, by passing it, thus accepted that Taiwan is a part of the People’s Republic of China. The resolution is pretty bad, but it does not go this far. The wording does seem to suggest that the representatives “of Chiang Kai-shek,” who had for some odd reason (albeit “unlawfully”) been allowed until 1971 to function in the UN as representatives of a country, were actually representing only Chiang Kai-shek and not any particular country…but it doesn’t quite say that either.
Resolution 2758 includes no statement or implication to the effect that Taiwan is a part of the People’s Republic of China.
Solidarity
The purpose of the Taiwan International Solidarity Act is to “provide that the United States, as a member of any international organizations, should oppose any attempts by the People’s Republic of China to resolve Taiwan’s status by distorting the decisions, language, policies, or procedures of the organization….” The purpose, then, is to fully aware of and fully engaged in this particular front in the PRC’s thousand-front war against the ROC and the rest of the world.
Claiming some degree of credit for passage of the two pro-Taiwan bills is the Formosan Association for Public Affairs, which had enlisted supporters to lobby House members. Now the U.S. Senate must act.
Meanwhile, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has announced that on 9 a.m. EST on May 15, it will hold a hearing on “Preventing CCP Aggression on Taiwan. How can the U.S. and its allies “tip the balance of power in the region through hard power, tighter coordination with Taiwan, and a united front of military, economic, and diplomatic deterrence”?
Speaking on this topic will be retired General Charles Flynn, retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, and former Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell.
