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 through its efforts to hijack the global market and the rules-based international order. China’s continued assault on the natural rights of the individual—including through the ongoing genocide of the Uyghurs and other populations—highlight Beijing’s cruelty and its indifference to the concept of basic human decency. (7) The Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly utilized violence and the threat of violence to coerce Taiwan and undermine Taiwan’s democratically elected government, in clear contradiction of existing United States law (the Taiwan Relations Act), which reads: the United States decision to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China rests upon the expectation that the future of Taiwan will be determined by peaceful means . (8) The CCP’s ongoing efforts to delegitimize Taiwan, if not checked, increases the risk of armed conflict by threatening to completely isolate Taiwan from any political support