Sec. 203. United States-Taiwan combined military exercises and related actions
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The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the heads of other relevant Federal agencies, should seek to carry out a program of combined military exercises between the United States, Taiwan, and, if feasible, other United States allies and partners to improve military coordination and relations with Taiwan. The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the heads of other relevant Federal agencies, should engage with their counterparts in Taiwan to organize combined disaster and humanitarian relief exercises.
The Secretary of Defense should consider increasing transits through the Taiwan Strait, freedom of navigation operations in the Taiwan Strait, and presence operations in the Western Pacific by the United States Navy, including in conjunction with United States allies and partners. It is the sense of Congress that Taiwan should dedicate additional domestic resources toward advancing its military readiness for purposes of defending Taiwan, including through— steady increases in annual defense spending as a share of gross domestic product; procurements of defense technologies that directly bolster Taiwan’s asymmetric defense capabilities; reform of Taiwan’s military reserves, including increasing the length of training required and number of days required in service annually; participation with United States Armed Forces in combined military exercises; and further engagement with the United States on strengthening Taiwan’s cyber capabilities.