[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3513-S3514]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2067. Mr. GARDNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2021 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

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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. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON CROSS-BORDER VIOLENCE IN THE 
                   GALWAN VALLEY AND THE GROWING TERRITORIAL 
                   CLAIMS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Since a truce in 1962 ended skirmishes between India 
     and the People's Republic of China, the countries have been 
     divided by a 2,100-mile-long Line of Actual Control.
       (2) In the decades since the truce, military standoffs 
     between India and the People's Republic of China have flared; 
     however, the standoffs have rarely claimed the lives of 
     soldiers.
       (3) In the months leading up to June, 15, 2020, along the 
     Line of Actual Control, the People's Republic of China--
       (A) reportedly amassed 5,000 soldiers; and
       (B) is believed to have crossed into [previously disputed 
     territory considered to be settled as part of India under the 
     1962 truce].
       (4) On June 6, 2020, the People's Republic of China and 
     India reached an agreement to deescalate and disengage along 
     the Line of Actual Control.
       (5) On June 15, 2020, at least 20 Indian soldiers and an 
     unconfirmed number of Chinese soldiers were killed in 
     skirmishes following a weeks-long standoff in Eastern Ladakh, 
     which is the de facto border between India and the People's 
     Republic of China.
       (6) Following the deadly violence, Prime Minister Narendra 
     Modi of India stated, ``[w]henever there have been 
     differences of opinion, we have always tried to ensure that 
     those differences never turned into a dispute''.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) India and the People's Republic of China should work 
     toward deescalating the situation along the Line of Actual 
     Control; and
       (2) the expansion and aggression of the People's Republic 
     of China in and around disputed territories, such as the Line 
     of Actual Control, the South China Sea, the Senkaku Islands, 
     is of significant concern.
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