Sec. 102. Visits by cabinet level officials
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Congress finds the following: Visits by United States cabinet officials and other high-ranking visitors are an indicator of the breadth and depth of ties between the United States and Taiwan. In December 1992, United States Trade Representative Carla Hills visited Taiwan, marking the first cabinet-level visit since 1979. Over the next 8 years the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, the Secretary of Energy, and 2 Secretaries of Transportation visited Taiwan. No United States cabinet secretary has visited Taiwan since July 2000.
In March 2008, candidate Barack Obama wrote in a message congratulating Ma Ying-jeou on his election victory that [t]he U.S. should reopen blocked channels of communication with Taiwan officials , however no Cabinet-level visits to Taiwan have yet taken place. It shall be the policy of the United States to encourage visits by cabinet-level officials between the United States and Taiwan to foster commercial, technological, and people-to-people exchanges.