{"id":182666,"date":"2022-09-15T11:37:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=182666"},"modified":"2022-09-15T11:37:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:37:37","slug":"us-senate-advances-bill-to-significantly-expand-taiwan-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/us-senate-advances-bill-to-significantly-expand-taiwan-support\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate advances bill to significantly expand Taiwan support"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A Senate committee in the United States has taken the first step towards legislation that would significantly enhance US military support for Taiwan, including potentially billions of dollars in additional security assistance, as the self-ruled island comes under increasing pressure from China.<\/p>\n

The US has provided Taiwan with weapons to defend itself under decades-old legislation, but the Taiwan Policy Act of 2022 would go further by providing security assistance of $4.5bn over four years. It also lays out sanctions on Beijing if it uses force to try to seize the island, which it sees as its own, and supports Taipei\u2019s participation in international organisations.<\/p>\n

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee backed the legislation 17-5 on Wednesday, despite concerns about the bill among members of President Joe Biden\u2019s administration and anger about the measure from Beijing.<\/p>\n

Sponsors said the bill would be the most comprehensive restructuring of US policy towards the island since the\u00a0Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, which was passed after Washington switched formal diplomatic recognition to Beijing and mandates the US to \u201cpreserve and promote extensive, close and friendly commercial, cultural, and other relations between the people of the United States and the people of Taiwan\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to be clear-eyed about what we are facing,\u201d said Senator Bob Menendez, the committee\u2019s Democratic chairman, while stressing that the US does not seek war or heightened tensions with Beijing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we want to ensure Taiwan has a fighting chance, we must act now,\u201d said Senator Jim Risch, the committee\u2019s top Republican, arguing that any change in the status quo for Taiwan would have \u201cdisastrous effects\u201d for the US economy and national security.<\/p>\n

The bill must still clear the full Senate and House before it can become law.<\/p>\n

The White House has not said whether Biden will sign the legislation, although with\u00a0strong bipartisan support\u00a0Congress could override any potential veto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Senate committee in the United States has taken the first step towards legislation that would significantly enhance US military support for Taiwan, including potentially billions of dollars in additional security assistance, as the self-ruled island comes under increasing pressure from China. The US has provided Taiwan with weapons to defend itself under decades-old legislation, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182668,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182666\/revisions\/182668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}