1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Taiwan Fellowship Act . 2. Findings; purposes (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Taiwan Relations Act ( Public Law 96–8 ; 22 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.) affirmed United States policy to preserve and promote extensive, close, and friendly commercial, cultural, and other relations between the people of the United States and the people on Taiwan, as well as the people on the China mainland and all other peoples of the Western Pacific area . (2) Consistent with the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act of 2018 ( Public Law 115–409 ), the United States has grown its strategic partnership with Taiwan’s vibrant democracy of 23,000,000 people. (3) Despite a concerted campaign by the People’s Republic of China to isolate Taiwan from its diplomatic partners and from international organizations, including the World Health Organization, Taiwan has emerged as a global leader in the coronavirus global pandemic response, including by donating more than 2,000,000 surgical masks and other medical equipment to the United States. (4) The creation of a United States fellowship program with Taiwan would support a key priority of expanding people-to-people exchanges, which was outlined in the President’s 2017 National Security Strategy. (b) Purposes The purposes of this Act are— (1) to further strengthen the United States-Taiwan strategic partnership and broaden understanding of the Indo-Pacific region by temporarily assigning officials of any branch of the United States Government to Taiwan for intensive study in Mandarin and placement as Fellows with Taiwan central authorities or a Taiwanese civic institution; (2) to provide for eligible United States personnel to learn Mandarin Chinese and expand their understanding of the political economy of Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region; (3) to better position the United States to advance its economic, security, and human rights interests in the Indo-Pacific region