# H.R. 1531 (119th): Pressure Regulatory Organizations To End Chinese Threats to Taiwan Act or the PROTECT Taiwan Act

Pressure Regulatory Organizations To End Chinese Threats to Taiwan Act or the PROTECT Taiwan Act This bill requires certain federal entities to seek to exclude China from six international financial organizations if the President informs Congress that China's actions threaten Taiwan and pose a danger to U.S. interests. Specifically, the bill establishes that it is U.S. policy to seek to exclude Chinese representatives from participating in the activities of six international organizations if the President informs Congress that China's actions pose any (1) threat to Taiwan's security, economic system, or social system; and (2) danger to U.S. interests. The six specified organizations are the Group of Twenty, the Bank for International Settlements, the Financial Stability Board, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, and the International Organization of Securities Commissions. In the event that the President so informs Congress, the bill requires the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the Securities and Exchange Commission to take all necessary steps to advance the exclusion policy. The President may waive the application of this policy to an organization if doing so is in the national interest of the United States.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: china_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: china_relations. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: foreign_policy. Category: war_peace. Lane tag: prudential.
Lane: international_finance. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: presidential_waiver. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: taiwan. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: taiwan_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 58: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill responds to a real concern, coercive threats against Taiwan's security and self-government, which can be framed as restraining aggression. However, its operative mechanism is discretionary foreign-policy and financial-diplomacy leverage with a presidential waiver, so the moral weight is prudential rather than a direct restraint of named evil or a direct advancement of moral harm.
Theological note: The measure concerns the defense of a vulnerable nation against coercion and the just use of national influence, which bears on neighbor-love and the restraint of aggression. Its relevance is prudential: whether financial-diplomatic exclusion is a wise and proportionate means of protecting Taiwan is a matter for statecraft rather than a clear moral verdict.

## Recorded votes

Roll 58: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Yea 395 · Nay 2 · Other 35.

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