Senate Bill Seeks Sanctions Plan to Deter Chinese Attack on Taiwan
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, proposed a bill that would require the executive branch to form an interagency task force to identify Chinese entities that could be sanctioned for supporting an attempt by China to take over Taiwan.
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The Deter PRC Aggression Against Taiwan Act, which is intended to discourage a Chinese move against the island country, calls for the State and Treasury departments to set up the task force in coordination with the director of national intelligence and the leaders of other "appropriate" federal agencies.
The task force would assess how existing sanctions programs could be used and whether any new sanctions authorities should be created. It also would look at how sanctions could be coordinated with U.S. allies and partners and whether U.S. agencies need more resources to use sanctions and other economic tools against China.
Risch’s committee plans to consider the legislation at an Oct. 22 meeting, along with several other previously introduced bills dealing with sanctions and defense trade. Among those other measures are the Stop China and Russia Act, which could lead to additional sanctions on China for providing dual-use items to Russia’s war against Ukraine (see 2508020001), and the Think Twice Act, which would require the State Department to analyze whether the U.S. should use export controls, sanctions or “other economic restrictions” to discourage other countries from buying Chinese military equipment (see 2507250023).
Risch's Taiwan bill is similar to legislation that Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, introduced in the previous two Congresses. Sullivan said in July that he intends to reintroduce his proposal (see 2507250016).