US Rep. Ted Yoho to introduce legislation that would permit military force if China invades Taiwan

Rep. Ted Yoho stated that he will be introducing a piece of legislation called the Taiwan Invasion Prevention Act that would permit the US to deploy military force if China decides to invade Taiwan.

“With South Korea and Japan and the United States, we’re doing enough," Rep. Yoho said on a clip shared on Lou Dobbs Tonight on Fox Business on Friday.

"That trilateral arrangement, that agreement between those three countries, that is one of the strongest relationships in national security. Are we doing enough with Taiwan? No. Since Henry Kissinger’s days and forward, there’s been strategic ambiguity about our policies between Taiwan and China."

"We are introducing a bill next week, and it’s going to be called the Taiwan Invasion Prevention Act, and this is something that’s going to lay very clear what our intent is," he said. "In fact, it’ll go to the point where it authorizes an AUMF if China invades Taiwan, and it’ll be a sunset for five years, that AUMF, that would authorize the president to use force."

"Right now, our agreement, and this came out of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, is that we would sell Taiwan enough weapons for them to defend themselves," he added. "But when Xi Jinping has announced that he’s ready to draw blood over Taiwan and reunify them, they forgot to ask Taiwan.”

Yoho stated that "you cannot trust Xi Jinping or the communist party because they lie all the time about this," referring to China's inability to be forward about their intent to militarize territorial lands that could be thousands of miles away from the mainland.