---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3382"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3382"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3382"
units:
  - "Chapter 48A — Taiwan Enhanced Resilience"
  - "Subchapter IV — Supporting United States Educational and Exchange Programs with Taiwan"
---

# §3382. Purposes


The purposes of this subchapter are—

- (1) to further strengthen the United States-Taiwan strategic partnership and broaden understanding of the Indo-Pacific region by temporarily assigning officials of any agencies of the United States Government to Taiwan for intensive study in Mandarin and placement as Fellows in a Taiwanese civic institution;
- (2) to provide for eligible United States personnel—
  - (A) to learn or strengthen Mandarin Chinese language skills; and
  - (B) to expand their understanding of the political economy of Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region; and
- (3) to better position the United States to advance its economic, security, and human rights interests and values in the Indo-Pacific region.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–263, div. E, title LV, § 5528, Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3325.)