[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 104 (Thursday, June 20, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4184]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 809. Mr. ROMNEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 764 submitted by Mr. Inhofe and intended to be proposed 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 AND PARTNERS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC 
                   REGION AND EUROPE REGARDING THE PEOPLE'S 
                   REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Congress supports the finding on the People's Republic 
     of China articulated in the 2018 National Defense Strategy 
     and the 2017 National Security Strategy.
       (2) 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.
       (3) 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.
       (4) The most far-reaching 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.
       (5) The People's Republic of China uses economic 
     inducements and penalties, influence operations, and implied 
     military threats to persuade other countries to heed the 
     political and security agenda of the People's Republic of 
     China.
       (6) United States allies and partners are critical to 
     effective competition with the People's Republic of China.
       (b) Statement of Policy.--It is the policy of the United 
     States--
       (1) to expand military, diplomatic, and economic alliances 
     and partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region and with Europe 
     and like-minded countries around the globe that are critical 
     to effective competition with the People's Republic of China; 
     and
       (2) to develop, in collaboration with such allies and 
     partners, a unified approach to addressing and deterring 
     significant diplomatic, economic, and military challenges 
     posed by the People's Republic of China.
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