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22 U.S.C. § 3302 — Implementation of United States policy with regard to Taiwan

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22 U.S.C. § 3302 — Implementation of United States policy with regard to Taiwan

**(a) Defense articles and services** In furtherance of the policy set forth in [section 3301 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3301&num=0&edition=prelim), the United States will make available to Taiwan such defense articles and defense services in such quantity as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability. **(b) Determination of Taiwan’s defense needs** The President and the Congress shall determine the nature and quantity of such defense articles and services based solely upon their judgment of the needs of Taiwan, in accordance with procedures established by law. Such determination of Taiwan’s defense needs shall include review by United States military authorities in connection with recommendations to the President and the Congress. **(c) United States response to threats to Taiwan or dangers to United States interests** The President is directed to inform the Congress promptly of any threat to the security or the social or economic system of the people on Taiwan and any danger to the interests of the United States arising therefrom. The President and the Congress shall determine, in accordance with constitutional processes, appropriate action by the United States in response to any such danger.

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22 U.S.C. § 3301 — Congressional findings and declaration of policy

**(a) Findings** The President having terminated governmental relations between the United States and the governing authorities on Taiwan recognized by the United States as the Republic of China prior to January 1, 1979, the Congress finds that the enactment of this chapter is necessary— (1) to help maintain peace, security, and stability in the Western Pacific; and (2) to promote the foreign policy of the United States by authorizing the continuation of commercial, cultural, and other relations between the people of the United States and the people on Taiwan. **(b) Policy** It is the policy of the United States— (1) to preserve and promote extensive, close, and friendly commercial, cultural, and other relations between the people of the United States and the people on Taiwan, as well as the people on the China mainland and all other peoples of the Western Pacific area; (2) to declare that peace and stability in the area are in the political, security, and economic interests of the United States, and are matters of international concern; (3) to make clear that the United States decision to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China rests upon the expectation that the future of Taiwan will be determined by peaceful means; (4) to consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States; (5) to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character; and (6) to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan. **(c) Human rights** Nothing

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22 U.S.C. § 2776 — Reports and certifications to Congress on military exports

**(a) Report by President; contents** The President shall transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and to the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate not more than sixty days after the end of each quarter an unclassified report (except that any material which was transmitted in classified form under subsection (b)(1) or (c)(1) of this section may be contained in a classified addendum to such report, and any letter of offer referred to in paragraph (1) of this subsection may be listed in such addendum unless such letter of offer has been the subject of an unclassified certification pursuant to subsection (b)(1) of this section, and any information provided under paragraph (11) of this subsection may also be provided in a classified addendum) containing— (1) a listing of all letters of offer to sell any major defense equipment for $1,000,000 or more under this chapter to each foreign country and international organization, by category, if such letters of offer have not been accepted or canceled; (2) a listing of all such letters of offer that have been accepted during the fiscal year in which such report is submitted, together with the total value of all defense articles and defense services sold to each foreign country and international organization during such fiscal year; (3) the cumulative dollar amounts, by foreign country and international organization, of sales credit agreements under [section 2763 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2763&num=0&edition=prelim) and guaranty agreements under [section 2764 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2764&num=0&edi

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22 U.S.C. § 2651 — Establishment of Department

There shall be at the seat of government an executive department to be known as the “Department of State”, and a Secretary of State, who shall be the head thereof.

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22 U.S.C. § 2151 — Congressional findings and declaration of policy

(a) United States development cooperation policy

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22 U.S.C. § 2794 — Definitions

For purposes of this chapter, the term— (1) “excess defense article” has the meaning provided by [section 2403(g) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2403/g&num=0&edition=prelim); (2) “value” means, in the case of an excess defense article, except as otherwise provided in [section 2761(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2761/a&num=0&edition=prelim), not less than the greater of— (A) the gross cost incurred by the United States Government in repairing, rehabilitating, or modifying such article, plus the scrap value; or (B) the market value, if ascertainable; (3) “defense article”, except as provided in paragraph (7) of this section, means, with respect to a sale or transfer by the United States under the authority of this chapter or any other foreign assistance or sales program of the United States— (A) any weapon, weapons system, munition, aircraft, vessel, boat, or other implement of war, (B) any property, installation, commodity, material, equipment, supply, or goods used for the purposes of making military sales, (C) any machinery, facility, tool, material, supply, or other item necessary for the manufacture, production, processing, repair, servicing, storage, construction, transportation, operation, or use of any article listed in this paragraph, and (D) any component or part of any article listed in this paragraph, but does not include merchant vessels or (as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 [[42 U.S.C. 2011](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section2011&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]) source material (except uranium depleted in the isotope 235 which is incorporated in defense articles so

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22 U.S.C. § 2751 — Need for international defense cooperation and military export controls; Presidential waiver; report to Congress; arms sales policy

As declared by the Congress in the Arms Control and Disarmament Act [[22 U.S.C. 2551](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2551&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], an ultimate goal of the United States continues to be a world which is free from the scourge of war and the dangers and burdens of armaments; in which the use of force has been subordinated to the rule of law; and in which international adjustments to a changing world are achieved peacefully. In furtherance of that goal, it remains the policy of the United States to encourage regional arms control and disarmament agreements and to discourage arms races.

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10 U.S.C. § 301 — Definitions

In this chapter: (1) The terms “appropriate congressional committees” and “appropriate committees of Congress” mean— (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and (B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. (2) The term “defense article” has the meaning given that term in section 644 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ([22 U.S.C. 2403](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2403&num=0&edition=prelim)). (3) The term “defense service” has the meaning given that term in section 644 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ([22 U.S.C. 2403](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2403&num=0&edition=prelim)). (4) The term “developing country” has the meaning prescribed by the Secretary of Defense for purposes of this chapter in accordance with section 1241(n) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. (5) The term “incremental expenses”, with respect to a foreign country— (A) means the reasonable and proper costs of rations, fuel, training ammunition, transportation, and other goods and services consumed by the country as a direct result of the country’s participation in activities authorized by this chapter; and (B) does not include— (i) any form of lethal assistance (excluding training ammunition); or (ii) pay, allowances, and other normal costs of the personnel of the country. (6) The term “national security forces”, in the case of a foreign country, means the following: (A) National military and national-level security forces of the foreign country that have the functional

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22 U.S.C. § 3302 — Implementation of United States policy

Page 1330 TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE § 3302 ‘‘(4) carry out a program of exchanges of senior military officers and senior officials with Taiwan to improve military-to-military relations, as expressed in section 1284 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114–328; 130 Stat. 2544); ‘‘(5) support expanded exchanges focused on prac- tical training for Taiwan personnel by and with United States military units, including exchanges among services; ‘‘(6) conduct bilateral naval exercises, to include pre-sail conferences, in the western Pacific Ocean with the Taiwan navy; and ‘‘(7) consider the advisability and feasibility of re- establishing port of call exchanges between the United States navy and the Taiwan navy.’’ Executive Documents EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 12143 Ex. Ord. No. 12143, June 22, 1979, 44 F.R. 37191, which provided for facilitation of the maintenance of com- mercial, cultural, and other relations between the peo- ples of the United States and Taiwan, was superseded by Ex. Ord. No. 13014, Aug. 15, 1996, 61 F.R. 42963, set out below. EX. ORD. NO. 13014. MAINTAINING UNOFFICIAL RELATIONS WITH THE PEOPLE ON TAIWAN Ex. Ord. No. 13014, Aug. 15, 1996, 61 F.R. 42963, pro- vided: In light of the recognition of the People’s Republic of China by the United States of America as the sole legal government of China, and by the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America by the Taiwan Relations Act (Public Law 96-8, 22 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.) (‘‘Act’’), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, in order to facilitate the maintenance of com- mercial, cultural, and other relations between the peo- ple of the United States and the people on Taiwan with- out official representation o

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