---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3357"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3357"
heading: "Findings and statement of policy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3357"
units:
  - "Chapter 48A — Taiwan Enhanced Resilience"
  - "Subchapter I — Implementation of an Enhanced Defense Partnership Between the United States and Taiwan"
---

# §3357. Findings and statement of policy

- (a) **Findings—** Congress finds the following:
  - (1) Advancing peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific has been a central element of United States foreign policy toward the region.
  - (2) The Government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), especially since the election of Tsai Ing-Wen in 2016, has conducted a coordinated campaign to weaken Taiwan diplomatically, economically, and militarily in a manner that threatens to erode United States policy and create a fait accompli on questions surrounding Taiwan’s future.
  - (3) To secure United States interests and preserve the ability of the people of Taiwan to determine their own future, it is necessary to reinforce Taiwan’s diplomatic, economic, and territorial space.
- (b) **Statement of policy—** It is the policy of the United States to—
  - (1) maintain the position that peace and stability in the Western Pacific are in the political, security, and economic interests of the United States, and are matters of international concern; and
  - (2) work with allies and partners to promote peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific and deter military acts or other forms of coercive behavior that would undermine regional stability.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–263, div. E, title LV, § 5511, Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3308.)