Republican senators have introduced a bill to provide $ 2 billion a year and other aid to bolster Taiwan's defenses, Reuters reported.

The bill calls for $ 2 billion a year in foreign military funding - US grants and loans that allow countries to buy weapons and defense equipment manufactured in the United States - until 2032.

While the bill is submitted only by Republicans, the minority party in the Senate, it increases congressional pressure on Democratic President Joe Biden to take bolder action to strengthen ties with Taiwan.

Funding will be subject to certain conditions, including Taiwan's commitment to meet US spending and the agreement of Taipei and Washington for joint long-term capacity development planning.

The United States has called on Taiwan to undertake defense reforms to focus on opportunities that will make its military more mobile and more difficult to attack, and to ensure it has a strong reserve force.

Defending Taiwan is critical to preserving the United States’s credibility as the defender of democratic values ​​and free market principles as embodied by the people and government of Taiwan, the text of the bill said.