House Concurrent Resolution 166
  
  Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Sherrod Brown 
  (D-OH), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Robert Andrews (R-NJ), Peter 
  Deutsch (R-FL), Merrill Cook (R-UT), Tom Tancredo (R-CO), 
  John Sweeney (R-NY) and Bob Schaffer (R-CO) introduced House 
  Concurrent Resolution 166 on July 29, 1999 endorsing Taiwan 
  President Lee Teng-hui's recent policy shift.

  On July 9, President Lee Teng-hui for the first time ever 
  referred to Taiwan's ties with China as a "state-to-state" 
  relationship, thus effectively abolishing the Taiwan 
  government's long-held "One China Policy." According to 
  Taipei, the idea of one China that included Taiwan had to be 
  scrapped because Beijing used it to keep Taiwan out of 
  international organizations and prevented Taiwan from 
  establishing diplomatic relations with other countries. 

  The U.S. "One China Policy" originates from the 1972 U.S.-
  China Shanghai Communique. It states that "The United States 
  acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan 
  Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a 
  part of China."

  President Lee's redefinition of the Taiwanese view of 
  cross-strait relations is now the deathblow to the "One 
  China Policy" because the Taiwanese side of the Strait no 
  longer maintains that it is part of China. His statement has 
  found fervent support among Taiwan's population.  According 
  to a recent poll conducted in Taiwan by the "Chinese 
  Association for EurAsian Studies," 74.2% of the people in 
  Taiwan agree with President Lee's recent policy shift where 
  he announced that from now on Taiwan considers relations 
  between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (PRC) 
  "state-to-state" relations.