After the United States launches diplomacy against Taiwan, there will be a highlight this month, that is, the Federal Senate Foreign Affairs Committee will discuss the "Taiwan Policy Act 2022". The bill supports Taiwan as much as the "Taiwan Relations Act" and is The foreign affairs department calls it the "flagship-type support for Taiwan Act". If the US Congress passes the review, it will provide a legal basis for the "new normal" of Taiwan-US relations.
According to Taiwanese media reports, Democratic Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Menanderz, and Grim, Chief Member of the Budget Committee Republican , visited Taiwan in April this year. After returning to the United States, he proposed "Taiwan in 2022 in 2022" on June 16. Policy Act, bringing together almost all Taiwan-related bills, the main contents include: providing Taiwan with US$4.5 billion in security assistance, supporting Taiwan to join international organizations, giving Taiwan the status of "main non-NATO ally", requiring US State Department to coordinate changes to Taiwan Name of the representative office in the United States, etc. Menandez described this as the most comprehensive revision of the United States' policy toward Taiwan since its entry into force in 1979.
reported that the bill was originally scheduled to be reviewed on July 19, but it was postponed to August 3 because Republican lawmakers asked for more time to study content. Before the review, the Senate will give priority to the approval of Finland and Swedish joins the NATO (NATO) proposal, and the relevant review was postponed again. The second trial was postponed to the time when the US House of Representatives Speaker Pelosi visited Taiwan. Foreign media reported that the Biden administration lobbies Democratic senators to review the "Taiwan Policy Act" to avoid affecting Taiwan policy. People familiar with the matter said the Biden administration is worried that the bill will backfire and contradict the decades of "strategic ambiguity" policies.
reviewed this bill, which was divided into three major chapters, nine major themes, and 107 pages. Some scholars on the island analyzed that the bill was based on the basis of structural addition of the "Taiwan Relations Law" and included in the spirit of "six guarantees" and regulations, through the "paragraph legislation", the United States' position of fully supporting Taiwan.
The Democratic Congressman who promoted the legislation of the "2022 Taiwan Policy Act" was a Democratic Congressman. Those who had doubts about this bill were the White House owners - Biden President, while Republican Congressman became the one who controlled the bill. Can it be approved in Congress. Since the United States will hold midterm elections in early November, in the atmosphere of "anti-China and Taiwan protection" in Washington political arena, the Democratic and Republican parties expect that the Senate and the House of Representatives will have a great chance of passing the bill in the future. Regarding new congressional public opinion, once the bill is sent to the Oval Office of the White House, Biden has no reason not to sign it.
Since one of the six guarantees is not to amend the Taiwan Relations Act, the "Taiwan Policy Act 2022" will be the latest bill to re-regulate Taiwan-US relations since 1979. It covers comprehensively enhancing Taiwan-US relations and strengthening Taiwan-US security and economic and trade relations, support for Taiwan's international participation and counter-China mainland and other major issues, including many important contents of the US Congress-Taiwan bill in recent years, led by heavyweight senators from the Democratic Republican parties, highlighting the bill's The cross-party consensus of the U.S. Congress.
The content of this bill is the most noteworthy: giving Taiwan the status of "the main non-NATO ally" and changing the name of the representative office in the United States to the "Taiwan Office". In terms of current Taiwan-US relations, Taiwan is at most a "partner" relationship with the United States. If it is upgraded to an "alliance", it will undoubtedly regard Taiwan as a national status as Japan, South Korea, Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries. This will Breaking the one-China policy of the United States also violates the one-China principle of the mainland .
The United States intends to formulate new laws and establish a "new normal" relationship between Taiwan and the United States, with the aim of confronting the "new normal" of the mainland, and the "2022 Taiwan Policy Act" also forces the US executive branch to turn "strategic ambiguity" against Taiwan into a "righteous" relationship with Taiwan into a "strategic ambiguity" of the United States to the right of the United States. Taiwan has a "clear strategy" meaning. If the mainland sends troops to attack Taiwan, the US must rush to support it. Therefore, the law will also lay a potential point of conflict for the already sluggish Sino-US relations.
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