Partnership with Taiwan

(a) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the American Institute in Taiwan should take steps to strengthen and expand partnerships with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representatives Office in the United States to expand access to Mandarin language instruction and Chinese cultural programming for students in the United States, including K–12 schools and institutions of higher education. (b) Grant authority The Secretary of Education is authorized to provide grants to K–12 schools and institutions of higher education to support access to Mandarin language instruction and Chinese cultural programming in the United States provided in partnership between the American Institute in Taiwan and Taipei Economic and Cultural Representatives Office in the United States, including programming under the United States-Taiwan Education Initiative.