House Passes 4 Amendments to Strengthen US-Taiwan Relations

Among them is the ‘honest maps’ amendment, which prohibits the Department of Defense from displaying any map showing Taiwan as part of China.

A military statue and Taiwanese flag on top of an arch built in remembrance of the Battle of Guningtou in 1949 at Taiwan's Kinmen islands on Oct. 20, 2020. Kinmen islands lie just 2 miles from the mainland China coast (in background) in the Taiwan Strait. Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S. House of Representatives recently approved four amendments proposed by Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) that seek to boost ties between the United States and Taiwan and move away from the “One China” policy.

These amendments, passed on Sept. 27 and Sept. 28, respectively, were integrated into the Department of Defense Appropriations Act and the Department of State Appropriations Act.