[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 102 (Tuesday, June 18, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3682]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 655. Mr. ROMNEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle E of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1262. POLICY WITH RESPECT TO EXPANSION OF COOPERATION 
                   WITH ALLIES IN THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION AND 
                   EUROPE TO COUNTER THE RISE OF THE PEOPLE'S 
                   REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) The People's Republic of China is leveraging military 
     modernization, influence operations, and predatory economics 
     to coerce neighboring countries to reorder the Indo-Pacific 
     region to the advantage of the People's Republic of China.
       (2) As the People's Republic of China continues its 
     economic and military ascendance, asserting power through a 
     whole of government long-term strategy, the People's Republic 
     of China will continue to pursue a military modernization 
     program that seeks Indo-Pacific regional hegemony in the 
     near-term and displacement of the United States to achieve 
     global preeminence in the future.
       (3) The most important long-term objective of the defense 
     strategy of the United States is to set the military 
     relationship between the United States and the People's 
     Republic of China on a path toward transparency and 
     nonaggression.
       (b) Statement of Policy.--It is the policy of the United 
     States--
       (1) to expand military, diplomatic, and economic alliances 
     in the Indo-Pacific region and with Europe and like-minded 
     countries around the globe that are critical to addressing 
     the rise of the People's Republic of China; and
       (2) to develop, in collaboration with such allies, a 
     unified approach to address the rise of the People's Republic 
     of China.
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