THE House China Committee earlier this week advanced 10 bipartisan recommendations to deter China from attacking Taiwan.
Formed in January 2023, the select committee on the Chinese Communist Party is a panel under the United States House of Representatives that focuses on deterring economic and security threats posed by China.
In April, the panel which involved selected Republican and Democratic Lawmakers gathered for a tabletop war game exercise led by the Center for a New American Security think tank to help them decide the best military, diplomatic and economic course of action to take against China.
The lawmakers were able to come up with the Top 10 recommendations based on their observations during the tabletop war games held last month.
The top 10 recommendations include: The establishment of a war reserve stockpile of weapons in Taiwan and prioritizing weapons delivery for Taipei; The committee also proposed to strengthen the distribution of American Forces throughout the Indo-Pacific Region and to expand training and coordination between the U.S. and Taiwanese militaries; Another proposal was to conduct quarterly updates on the Biden administration’s efforts to address the
$14.2-B foreign military sales backlog or the amount of military equipment that Taiwan has purchased since 2019 but the U.S. failed to deliver.
U.S. Representative Mike Gallagher, The Committee Chair, is pushing for the authorization of multiyear munitions procurement contracts after they discovered from the recent war games that the U.S. would run out of precision-guided missiles within a week in the event of a conflict with China.
The panel hopes for their proposals to be included in the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act.
