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. (b) Purpose It is the sense of Congress that Congress— (1) believes the United States must stand firm in the commitments it made in the Taiwan Relations Act ( 22 U.S.C. 3301 et seq. ), which states that the United States must maintain the capacity of the United States 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