§3371 Findings

Summary

Congress finds that since 2016 eight countries — the Gambia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Panama, the Dominican Republic, Burkina Faso, El Salvador, the Solomon Islands, and Kiribati — switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China. Taiwan was invited to the World Health Assembly as an observer every year from 2009 through 2016. Since President Tsai’s 2016 election, China resisted Taiwan’s participation and Taiwan was not invited in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, or 2021. Congress also finds that the Taipei flight region handled 1,750,000 flights and 68,900,000 passengers in 2018, and Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport was the eleventh busiest. Taiwan has been excluded from the International Civil Aviation Organization since 2013. UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 does not address how Taiwan and its people are represented at the United Nations, nor does it give China the right to represent them.