1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Taiwan Defense Assessment Commission Act of 2018 . 2. Statement of policy It is the policy of the United States to reinforce its commitments to Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act and consistent with the Six Assurances as both governments work to improve Taiwan’s self-defense capability. 3. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the United States should— (1) strengthen and enhance its longstanding partnership and cooperation with Taiwan; (2) continue to conduct regular transfers of defense articles and defense services necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability, based solely on the needs of Taiwan; (3) continue to conduct bilateral military exercises and exchanges of senior military officers and senior officials with Taiwan to improve military-to-military relations, as expressed in section 1284 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 ( Public Law 114–328 ; 130 Stat. 2544)