; Whereas implementation of the Taiwan Travel Act is not a violation of United States policy and would 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 called for by the Taiwan Relations Act; Whereas it is in the United States national interest to see to it that resolution of the status of Taiwan is peaceful and respectful of Taiwan’s thriving democracy as well as that until such a peaceful resolution is achieved, the status quo in the Taiwan Strait in which Taiwan exists as a self-governing democracy is maintained; and Whereas the PRC’s One-China Principle does not reflect the objective state of affairs that the Taiwan Government represents a self-governing democracy of 23.6 million people: Now, therefore, be it