Senate Committee Advances Bill Calling for China-Taiwan Sanctions Strategy

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week advanced a bipartisan bill that would require the administration to form a sanctions strategy that would be triggered if China invades Taiwan. The Taiwan Protection and National Resilience Act, reintroduced in March (see 2303300024), would require the several Cabinet agencies to submit a report to Congress describing a “comprehensive sanctions strategy” that the U.S and allies could adopt in response to an invasion. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., one of the authors of the bill, said Congress “must continue to closely monitor” China’s “hostile acts against our democratic ally and remain firm in our strategy to deter any aggression against Taiwan.”