Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-California) submitted a \u2018sense of Congress\u2019 resolution to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, urging the US to declare the \u2018One China\u2019 policy \u201ceffectively obsolete\u201d<\/em> and recognize the \u201cobvious reality\u201d<\/em> that Taiwan has been an independent country for over 50 years.<\/p>\n The US should also \u201caggressively support Taiwan’s full participation in the United Nations and any other international organizations of which the United States is a member, and for which statehood is a requirement for membership,\u201d<\/em> says the resolution, which was posted on the website<\/a> of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA). The government in Taipei welcomed Rohrabacher\u2019s proposal. Regine Chen, a senior official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Focus Taiwan<\/a> news channel that Taipei will \u201ccontinue to work closely with our friends in the US Congress over the latest developments regarding the proposal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Rohrabacher\u2019s initiative comes just a week after the US-funded American Institute of Taiwan (AIT) unveiled its new $256 million headquarters in Taipei, over Chinese protests. The US-based nonprofit acts as a de facto embassy of Washington on the disputed island.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n \u201cThis trend is highly dangerous for Sino-US relations and regional peace, since the Chinese mainland will make no compromise on the Taiwan question,\u201d<\/em> Da Wei, director of the Institute of American Studies at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, told the Global Times<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n \u201cChina will not retaliate against every single provocative move from the US, but when the provocations have accumulated and reached a specific level, China will no longer keep silent and may take countermeasures, which might surprise the US,\u201d<\/em> Da told the English-language Chinese daily.<\/p>\n Rohrabacher\u2019s proposal comes at a time when the Trump administration has escalated the trade conflict with Beijing, with tariffs and counter-tariffs on $100 billion worth of Chinese and US goods scheduled to take effect on July 6.<\/p>\n Diao Daming, a US expert who teaches at the Renmin University of China, told the Global Times that Rohrabacher\u2019s resolution is part of a trend in Washington, pointing to the January op-ed by the new National Security Adviser John Bolton, who also called for revisiting the \u2018One China\u2019 policy.<\/p>\n In March, US President Donald Trump signed a law<\/a> promoting business and diplomatic exchanges with Taiwan, which also drew protests from Beijing.<\/p>\n The US has adhered to a \u2018One China\u2019 policy since 1972. The Shanghai Communique, signed during President Richard Nixon\u2019s visit to China, says that Washington \u201cacknowledges that Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The Chinese constitution calls Taiwan \u201cpart of the sacred territory of the People’s Republic of China\u201d<\/em> and calls for \u201creunifying the motherland.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Taiwan was ceded to Japan in 1895, following the Chinese defeat in the Sino-Japanese war. US ships ferried the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist) forces to the island in 1945, to accept the surrender of the Japanese forces. The island became a refuge for the nationalists in 1949, after Mao Zedong\u2019s Communist forces triumphed in the Chinese Civil War. The Taiwan-based Republic of China lost its UN seat in 1971, however, when the People\u2019s Republic of China was recognized as the legitimate government.<\/p>\n Like this story? 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