The bill itself notes that even "non-lethal" European arms sales to China "are far from benign, and enhance the prospects for the threat or use of force in resolving the status of Taiwan, a troubling prospect made more ominous" by China's recent enactment of the Anti-Secession Law.
The legislation would have required the US president to compile annual reports to Congress on European companies that continue to supply arms to China and European nations whose policies condone such sales.
If the countries and their firms were to appear on two annual lists, the president would have been required to impose penalties.
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