{"id":22596,"date":"2020-03-04T13:58:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T21:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22596"},"modified":"2020-03-04T21:59:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T05:59:55","slug":"house-passes-rep-curtis-bipartisan-taipei-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22596","title":{"rendered":"HOUSE PASSES REP. CURTIS\u2019 BIPARTISAN TAIPEI ACT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Legislation Will Require US Strategy and Response to Help Taiwan\u2019s Global Standing<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington, DC<em>\u2014<\/em><\/strong>Today, the United States House of Representatives\u00a0unanimously\u00a0passed the\u00a0<em>Taiwan Allies International Protection and Enhancement Initiative<\/em>\u00a0(TAIPEI)\u00a0<em>Act<\/em>, authored by\u00a0Representative John Curtis (R-UT), member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and Nonproliferation, and cosponsored by 47 colleagues from both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>This bipartisan legislation is intended\u00a0to strengthen Taiwan\u2019s standing around the world and comes in response to increased Chinese pressure and bullying tactics intended to restrict Taiwan\u2019s international space and global diplomatic recognition. The Senate cosponsors of the bill are US Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Chris Coons (D-DE).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube alignleft wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TAIPEI Act on House Floor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BC_CBp9Dhl4?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div><figcaption>The Congressman oversaw the passage of the bill.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BC_CBp9Dhl4&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Video Via YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m proud to see today\u2019s unanimous passage of\u00a0<\/em><em>my bill, the<\/em><em>\u00a0TAIPEI Act, which strengthens Taiwan\u2019s position in the world by promoting free trade negotiations, supporting Taiwan\u2019s participation in international organizations, and protecting its relations with its allies,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<strong>said Curtis<\/strong><em>. \u201cThis bill makes for a powerful statement and demonstrates that the United States stands with its democratic and free-market partners throughout the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe United States and democracies around the world should be concerned by China\u2019s efforts\u00a0to suppress Taiwan,\u201d\u00a0<strong>said co-lead Congressman Vicente Gonzalez.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cI\u00a0am proud to support passage of\u00a0the TAIPEI Act and stand in solidarity with Taiwan, a\u00a0free and thriving democracy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe United States should use every tool to support Taiwan\u2019s standing on the international stage,\u201d\u00a0<strong>said Senator Gardner.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThis bipartisan legislation demands a whole-of-government approach to ramp up our support for\u00a0Taiwan, and will send a strong message to nations that there will be consequences for supporting Chinese actions that undermine Taiwan. I applaud the U.S. House of Representatives for\u00a0unanimously\u00a0 advancing this critical bipartisan legislation, and I will continue to advocate on behalf of Taiwan and the Taiwanese people, as guided by United States law.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe House passage of this important legislation will help to strengthen Taiwan\u2019s democracy, its free market economy, and its standing on the world stage,\u201d\u00a0<strong>said Senator Coons.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cI look forward to seeing this bill passed into law.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation Will Require US Strategy and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22597,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22596\/revisions\/22597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}