Whereas the European Union has a self-declared strong stake in peace, security, and stability in Asia and it supports the status quo and peaceful resolution of differences across the Taiwan Strait, rejecting the use or threat of force to change that status quo; Whereas the G7 foreign ministers’ communique released on April 18, 2023, reaffirmed the importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait as an indispensable element in security and prosperity in the international community, and call for the peaceful resolution of cross-Strait issues ; Whereas the people of Taiwan have established a free, open, pluralistic, and democratic society; Whereas the people of Taiwan have conducted 7 democratic Presidential elections yielding 3 peaceful transfers of power, successive parliamentary elections, multiple nationwide referenda, and numerous local elections; Whereas Taiwan and its outlying islands have never been under the jurisdiction or control of the Communist regime in Beijing, which continues to illegitimately claim sovereignty over Taiwan and its people; Whereas Communist China has weaponized their so-called One China Principle to block Taiwan’s membership and full participation in international organizations and events ranging from the United Nations to BirdLife International; Whereas Taiwan maintains political, cultural, and economic ties with several countries around the world; Whereas Congress adopted the landmark, bipartisan Taiwan Relations Act, codifying in law the basis for preserving and promoting extensive, close, and friendly commercial, cultural, and other relations between the people of the United States and Taiwan, including providing arms of a defensive character to Taiwan and maintaining the United States capacity to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan