During every Congress, lawmakers pass hundreds of non-binding resolutions that mostly are forgotten as soon as they are approved.

But sometimes such resolutions can have broad foreign policy implications for the United States.

China and Japan, for example, are likely to react angrily to two resolutions the House Foreign Affairs Committee is expected to approve Tuesday, because they tread on highly sensitive issues for those nations.

One resolution (H Res 121) calls on Japan to apologize for coercing women in occupied Korea and China into sexual slavery during World War II. The measure won broad support in the House after an advertisement in The Washington Post by Japanese officials denied that the practice ever happened.

The other resolution (H Con Res 136) supports lifting restrictions on official visits by Taiwanese officials to the United States. That resolution risks angering China, which regards Taiwan as a renegade province and has promised to go to war if it declares its independence.

Japan has lobbied aggressively to keep the apology resolution from coming to a vote. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe brought up the “comfort women” issue in a visit with members of Congress in April.

The Web site of Japan’s U.S. embassy explains that Abe and others have issued apologies for the sexual enslavement of hundreds of thousands of women and warns that the resolution’s “adoption would be harmful to the friendship between the U.S. and Japan.” Japanese officials have said trade and U.S. basing rights in Japan could be affected.

But the issue is an emotional one on this side of the Pacific as well. Korean-Americans, a major constituency in the district of the resolution’s sponsor, Rep. Michael M. Honda, D-Calif., have lobbied hard to get the resolution through the House. Honda, a Japanese-American, was shipped off to an internment camp as a youth during World War II.

A spokesman for Honda, Daniel Kohns, said the lawmaker is aware of Japan’s previous apologies, but he said Honda wants its leaders to issue a more formal one.

The more Japan pushes back, Kohns said, the more it appears that lawmakers are willing to support Honda’s resolution. He and other congressional aides said Japan’s latest misstep was the full-page advertisement in The Washington Post denying the enslavement. The ad was signed by some members of the Japanese parliament.

Kohns said that resulted in several lawmakers telling Honda they would support his resolution. The Japanese Embassy emphasizes that the measure was sponsored by a private group and was “not associated with the Government of Japan.”

The other resolution touches upon the sincerity of the U.S. commitment to a “one China” policy. Since the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Beijing in 1979, the United States has barred high-level Taiwanese officials from visiting Washington.

The sense of Congress resolution, sponsored by Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, states those restrictions should be lifted. Chabot has visited Taiwan many times and co-chairs the House Taiwanese Caucus.

“Taiwan is our friend. It is a longtime democratic ally and a major trading partner,” Chabot said on the House floor last week. “China operates under a dictatorship. . . . Yet when it comes to dealing with the two nations diplomatically, we often treat Taiwan like a pariah nation and kowtow to the Beijing bullies.”

Chabot cosponsored a successful amendment to the Foreign Operations spending bill (HR 2764) that would prevent funding from being used to enforce the diplomatic restrictions.

The Chinese Embassy did not respond to questions about Chabot’s resolution. But a congressional source said China has pushed back in the past against similar resolutions.