The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that included a section on senior military exchanges with Taiwan
Taiwan News
Date: 2016/12/04
By: Central News Agency
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed the National Defense Authorization Act for
(By Central News Agency)
Fiscal Year 2017, which included for the first time a section on senior military exchanges with Taiwan.
The bill, which was voted through 375-34, will be forwarded to the Senate for consideration next week.
Section 1254 of the act states: “It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense should conduct a program of senior military exchanges between the United States and Taiwan that have the objective of improving military-to-military relations and defense cooperation between the United States and Taiwan.”
Such a program should be conducted at least once each calendar year in both the United States and Taiwan, according to the act. [FULL STORY]
