1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Defund China’s Allies Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The global political influence campaign of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has contributed to numerous countries in Central America and the Caribbean switching political allegiances from Taiwan to China over the past several years. (2) Costa Rica was the first Central American country to abandon a political relationship with Taiwan in 2007. Panama chose to recognize the PRC in 2017. El Salvador chose to cut ties with Taiwan in 2018, over the latter’s unwillingness to fund a financially unsustainable port. The Dominican Republic abandoned Taiwan that same year. In December 2021, the dictatorial Marxist government of Daniel Ortega chose to sever ties with Taiwan, and in March 2023, President Castro of Honduras, a fellow Marxist, chose to do the same thing. (3) Given the proximity of these countries to the United States, these switches in political allegiances necessarily represent a more tangible threat to United States national security interests and must be confronted. (4) United States efforts to condemn these countries’ willing diplomatic shift toward a genocidal government is undermined by an incomprehensible adherence to the so-called One China policy, on terms dictated by the Chinese Communist Party. (5) To pose a credible deterrence threat to the People’s Republic of China, the United States must first admit that the continuation of anachronistic foreign policy—based on the idea that the Chinese Communist Party is a responsible, good faith actor—is no longer a reasonable or even rational course of action. To that end, the United States must support full diplomatic relations with Taiwan and Taiwan’s full and unmitigated membership into the international community. (6) Good-faith assumptions about the Chinese Communist Party that have lingered since the 1970s have proven false. China has demonstrated its unwillingness to work collaboratively with the international community, including