Taiwan Conflict Deterrence Act of 2025

The Taiwan Conflict Deterrence Act of 2025 would create a Treasury-led, intelligence-informed framework to identify and publicly disclose the financial connections of top Chinese Communist Party officials to funds held in U.S. or foreign financial institutions, and then restrict financial services to those officials and their immediate families if those funds are believed to be illicit or corrupt. Triggered by a threat assessment related to China’s actions toward Taiwan (per the Taiwan Relations Act), the bill requires annual reporting for three years and includes transparency provisions (public unclassified reports in multiple languages). It also authorizes targeted sanctions-type tools under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to block significant transactions with the named individuals and their immediate families, with various exemptions and a sunset/termination provision. In short, the bill ties financial visibility and access to funds controlled by CCP leaders to a deterrence strategy aimed at Chinese aggression toward Taiwan. It expands the U.S. government’s ability to publicly identify and constrain the financial activity of CCP leadership and their families, while preserving certain national security protections and allowing waivers under specified conditions. The measures could affect U.S. financial institutions, international financial activity, and U.S.-China policy dynamics, and they rely on executive-branch reporting and licensing authorities to implement.