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4	4	STSESSION H. RES. 148
5	5	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding United Na-
6	6	tions General Assembly Resolution 2758 (XXVI) and the harmful
7	7	conflation of China’s ‘‘One China Principle’’ and the United States
8	8	‘‘One China Policy’’.
9	9	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
10	10	FEBRUARY21, 2025
11	11	Mrs. K
12	12	IM(for herself, Mr. BERA, Mr. MOOLENAAR, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI,
13	13	Mr. C
14	14	ASTROof Texas, and Mr. GOTTHEIMER) submitted the following
15	15	resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
16	16	RESOLUTION
17	17	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regard-
18	18	ing United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758
19	19	(XXVI) and the harmful conflation of China’s ‘‘One
20	20	China Principle’’ and the United States ‘‘One China
21	21	Policy’’.
22	22	Whereas, on October 25, 1971, United Nations General As-
23	23	sembly passed Resolution 2758, which recognizes the
24	24	Government of the People’s Republic of China (referred
25	25	to in this preamble as the ‘‘PRC’’) as the representative
26	26	of the member state ‘‘China’’ in the United Nations;
27	27	Whereas the purpose of Resolution 2758 was to address the
28	28	question of which government would represent the
29	29	‘‘China’’ seat at the United Nations, and not to address
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33	33	any other issues, including issues related to Taiwan’s ul-
34	34	timate political status;
35	35	Whereas, in recent years, the PRC has linked Resolution
36	36	2758 with its ‘‘One China Principle’’ and has claimed
37	37	that Resolution 2758 addresses the matter of sovereignty
38	38	over Taiwan;
39	39	Whereas the ‘‘One China Principle’’ is a policy held by the
40	40	Chinese Communist Party that—
41	41	(1) the PRC is the sole sovereign nation using the
42	42	name ‘‘China’’; and
43	43	(2) Taiwan is an inalienable part of China;
44	44	Whereas Resolution 2758 did not endorse and is not equiva-
45	45	lent to the ‘‘One China Principle’’ and countries that
46	46	supported Resolution 2758 do not necessarily accept the
47	47	‘‘One China Principle’’;
48	48	Whereas Resolution 2758 does not represent an international
49	49	consensus regarding the PRC’s stance that Taiwan is
50	50	part of China;
51	51	Whereas PRC officials misrepresent Resolution 2758 by
52	52	claiming the adoption of Resolution 2758 implies accept-
53	53	ance of the ‘‘One China Principle’’ and the PRC’s claims
54	54	to Taiwan;
55	55	Whereas the PRC misleadingly claims that countries with a
56	56	‘‘one China policy’’ have accepted and abide by the
57	57	PRC’s ‘‘One China Principle’’;
58	58	Whereas Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said, in
59	59	a 2024 hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs
60	60	of the House of Representatives, that Resolution 2758
61	61	‘‘is a tool [that China uses] to make the argument that
62	62	somehow Taiwan’s status is illegitimate’’, and reiterated
63	63	United States commitments to Taiwan;
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67	67	Whereas the ‘‘one China policy’’ of the United States ac-
68	68	knowledges the PRC’s ‘‘One China Principle’’, but af-
69	69	firms that—
70	70	(1) the United States does not take a position on
71	71	Taiwan’s status; and
72	72	(2) this issue should be resolved peacefully by the
73	73	people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait;
74	74	Whereas, in 1982, during the administration of President
75	75	Ronald Reagan, the United States conveyed Six Assur-
76	76	ances to Taiwan’s President Chiang Ching-kuo, including
77	77	that the United States had not changed its position re-
78	78	garding sovereignty over Taiwan, and each subsequent
79	79	United States presidential administration has reaffirmed
80	80	these Six Assurances;
81	81	Whereas Taiwan has established representative offices in
82	82	more than 60 countries and at the European Union and
83	83	the World Trade Organization, which disproves the
84	84	PRC’s claim of a unified United Nations position or
85	85	international consensus on Taiwan’s status;
86	86	Whereas the PRC has weaponized Resolution 2758 and the
87	87	‘‘One China Principle’’ to isolate Taiwan and to prevent
88	88	its meaningful participation at the United Nations,
89	89	United Nations-affiliated agencies, and other inter-
90	90	national fora, including at the World Health Organiza-
91	91	tion, the International Civil Aviation Organization, and
92	92	Interpol;
93	93	Whereas the PRC has bolstered its claims and engaged in re-
94	94	visionist history by successfully altering historic United
95	95	Nations documents to changes references to ‘‘Taiwan’’ to
96	96	‘‘Taiwan, Province of China’’;
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100	100	Whereas, in 2005, the Secretary of the World Health Organi-
101	101	zation signed a memorandum of understanding with the
102	102	PRC Ministry of Health regarding how the World Health
103	103	Organization would engage with Taiwan, which included
104	104	a requirement that communication with Taiwan go
105	105	through the PRC;
106	106	Whereas United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon
107	107	cited Resolution 2758 when refusing Taiwan’s accession
108	108	to the United Nations in 2007, based on the incorrect as-
109	109	sertion that Resolution 2758 supports China’s claim that
110	110	Taiwan is part of China;
111	111	Whereas the United Nations has used Resolution 2758 as a
112	112	justification for requiring Taiwan citizens, including
113	113	those with official invitations to attend United Nations
114	114	events, journalists, and representatives of nongovern-
115	115	mental organizations, to obtain PRC-issued Taiwan Com-
116	116	patriot Permits in addition to their passport or a PRC
117	117	passport to gain entry to United Nations facilities;
118	118	Whereas Secretary of State Antony Blinken released a state-
119	119	ment in 2021, which criticized the United Nations’ exclu-
120	120	sion of Taiwan civil society members and emphasized
121	121	that denying entry to such individuals undermines the
122	122	work of the United Nations;
123	123	Whereas, in 2022, Robert O’Brien, former United States Na-
124	124	tional Security Advisor, stated that—
125	125	(1) the PRC manipulates Resolution 2758 to make
126	126	false claims regarding Taiwan’s status in order ‘‘to un-
127	127	dermine the international order and the international sys-
128	128	tem’’; and
129	129	(2) Resolution 2758 ‘‘relates solely to the occupancy
130	130	of the China seat at the United Nations and nothing
131	131	more’’;
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135	135	Whereas, after the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China
136	136	passed a model resolution clarifying the contents of Reso-
137	137	lution 2758 in 2024, the Australian Senate, the Dutch
138	138	House of Representatives, the United Kingdom House of
139	139	Commons, the Canadian House of Commons, and the
140	140	European Parliament have all approved resolutions op-
141	141	posing the PRC’s distortion of Resolution 2758 and ef-
142	142	forts by the PRC to block Taiwan’s meaningful participa-
143	143	tion in international organizations;
144	144	Whereas, in August 2023, the Central American Parliament
145	145	(also known as ‘‘PARLACEN’’) expelled Taiwan, after
146	146	more than 20 years as a permanent observer, from hold-
147	147	ing such status at its sessions and falsely claimed that
148	148	Resolution 2758 deemed Taiwan a ‘‘province of mainland
149	149	China, which disqualifies it from participating as an
150	150	Independent country’’;
151	151	Whereas, in October 2024, South Africa’s Department of
152	152	International Relations and Cooperation echoed PRC
153	153	propaganda by inaccurately citing Resolution 2758 as
154	154	justification to direct Taiwan’s representative office to re-
155	155	locate outside of the capital, Pretoria;
156	156	Whereas the PRC cites Resolution 2758 as a justification to
157	157	coerce, intimidate, or punish sovereign nations for en-
158	158	gagement and partnership with Taiwan; and
159	159	Whereas, since 2016, the PRC has successfully induced or
160	160	pressured 10 nations: Sa˜o Tome´and Principe, Panama,
161	161	the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Burkina Faso,
162	162	Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Nicaragua, Honduras, and
163	163	Nauru, to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan: Now, there-
164	164	fore, be it
165	165	Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 1
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169	169	(1) reaffirms that the longstanding ‘‘one China 1
170	170	policy’’ of the United States does not affirmatively 2
171	171	recognize the People’s Republic of China’s claim to 3
172	172	control over Taiwan and its outlying islands, but 4
173	173	rather ‘‘acknowledges’’ this position, reaffirms the 5
174	174	interest of the United States in a peaceful resolution 6
175	175	of cross-Strait issues, ‘‘has not agreed to take any 7
176	176	position regarding sovereignty over Taiwan’’, and 8
177	177	‘‘will not exert pressure on Taiwan to enter into ne-9
178	178	gotiations with the PRC’’; 10
179	179	(2) reaffirms that the ‘‘one China policy’’ of the 11
180	180	United States and the similar policies of its partners 12
181	181	are not equivalent to the ‘‘One China Principle’’ of 13
182	182	the Chinese Communist Party; 14
183	183	(3) emphasizes that United Nations General 15
184	184	Assembly Resolution 2758 is not equivalent to, and 16
185	185	does not endorse, the PRC’s ‘‘One China Principle’’; 17
186	186	(4) emphasizes further that Resolution 2758 18
187	187	does not take a position on Taiwan’s ultimate polit-19
188	188	ical status, as explicitly recognized by PRC leaders 20
189	189	at the time, and does not represent a United Na-21
190	190	tions consensus on Taiwan’s status; 22
191	191	(5) opposes China’s use of the ‘‘One China 23
192	192	Principle’’ to coerce the United States, Taiwan, and 24
193	193	other countries to accept its claims over Taiwan; 25
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197	197	(6) supports Taiwan’s diplomatic allies in con-1
198	198	tinuing official relationships with Taiwan, and other 2
199	199	nations across the world in strengthening their part-3
200	200	nerships with Taiwan; 4
201	201	(7) reaffirms support for Taiwan’s membership 5
202	202	in international organizations for which statehood is 6
203	203	not a requirement for membership and encourages 7
204	204	meaningful participation for Taiwan in organizations 8
205	205	in which its membership is not possible; 9
206	206	(8) recognizes that Taiwan is a reliable and in-10
207	207	dispensable partner on issues ranging from global 11
208	208	health to advanced manufacturing, and its resources 12
209	209	and expertise are assets from which the inter-13
210	210	national community should fully benefit; 14
211	211	(9) supports ensuring that Taiwan passport 15
212	212	holders are able to access United Nations grounds 16
213	213	and should not be required to provide PRC-issued 17
214	214	identification; 18
215	215	(10) encourages the United States Government 19
216	216	to work with partners on joint efforts to counter 20
217	217	China’s false narratives about Resolution 2758; and 21
218	218	(11) supports the efforts of other countries to 22
219	219	differentiate between their policies and the ‘‘One 23
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224	224	about international views of Taiwan. 2
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