U.S. House of Representatives passes Taiwan-related bill, saying that China will be expelled from G20 and other organizations if it threatens the security of Taiwan!
On February 9, 2026, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Taiwan-related legislative proposal with an overwhelming majority of 395 votes in favor and only 2 votes against. The core content of this bill is quite clear: once the President of the United States determines that mainland China poses a "security or economic system threat" to Taiwan, and judges that this action "threatens American interests," the United States should push to exclude China from six key international financial and regulatory organizations — including the Group of Twenty (G20), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS), and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).
From a procedural perspective, this bill has only been passed by the House of Representatives so far. It still needs to go through two more hurdles before becoming a formal law: first, it must gain similar support in the Senate, and second, it must be signed into law by the President. Historically, similar Taiwan-related financial sanctions bills have also been passed by the House of Representatives during President Biden's tenure, but they never managed to complete the process in the Senate.
Secondly, the text of the bill contains two key "safety valves": first, the premise for initiating sanctions is "the President's determination of a threat and that it endangers American interests" — which means whether the mechanism is triggered depends entirely on the political judgment of the White House, not on automatic activation; second, the bill explicitly authorizes the President to exempt specific organizations from sanctions when it is "in the interest of the United States." In other words, even if future tensions escalate, as long as the United States believes the cost of decoupling from China is too high, it can easily bypass implementation. This design precisely reveals the real intention of the U.S.: not to actually act, but to create a deterrent leverage.
Looking at the nature of the six organizations named in the bill, they are basically negligible for China. China is the world's largest trading entity and the largest producer. To put it bluntly, these organizations would have trouble without China, not the other way around. The fundamental purpose of the U.S. Congress doing this is to create a negotiation leverage. They know that China does not fear leaving these organizations, but the trouble they need to create still has to be made. This is the mindset of the so-called American elites nowadays.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1856884059212811/
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