; purpose (a) Findings Congress finds as follows: (1) The United States Government has never officially recognized the People’s Republic of China’s claim of sovereignty over Taiwan. (2) The Chinese Communist Party in the People’s Republic of China seeks to control Taiwan through means of persuasion and coercion, and potentially compellance. (3) The People’s Liberation Army has set a goal of 2027 to have the capability to invade Taiwan, which also marks the 100-year anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army’s founding. (4) The People’s Republic of China refers to Taiwan as a region and to the President of Taiwan as the leader of the Taiwan region , illustrating the People’s Republic of China’s mistaken view that Taiwan is a region of China. (5) Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China are separated by a median line in the Taiwan Strait, which acts as an unofficial boundary that has generally been respected since 1999, until September 2020, when a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman stated, there is no so-called median line in the Strait , and People’s Liberation Army aircraft and vessels have repeatedly violated since. (6) Taiwan officially recorded 380 Chinese air incursions into the Taiwanese Air Defense Identification Zone in 2020, 969 Chinese air incursions in 2021, and 1,115 Chinese air incursions in 2022, illustrating a growing disregard to Taiwan’s sovereignty. (7) Many Taiwanese individuals see the Chinese Taipei nomenclature as a symbol of oppression from the People’s Republic of China, of which originally stems from an effort to find a way for both Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China to participate in the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics and the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. (8) In Mandarin language, Taiwan uses a version of Chinese Taipei in which Chinese is the cultural term zhonghua and does not have sovereignty connotations. Comparatively, the People’s Republic of China uses a version of Chinese Taipei in which Chinese is zhongguo or China which mistakenly implies that Taiwan is part of China.