[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 119 (Monday, June 29, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3961]
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SA 2304. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2301 proposed by Mr. Inhofe 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 year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle G of title XII, add the following:
SEC. __. REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF
CHINA IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
(a) In General.--The Director of National Intelligence and
the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency shall jointly
submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and
the House of Representatives a report on the economic, trade,
environmental, military, security, and political activities
of the People's Republic of China in the Western Hemisphere,
including direct investment, development financing, loan
deals, and state-owned enterprises in infrastructure and
telecommunications projects.
(b) Element.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include an assessment of the activities of the People's
Republic of China with respect to the following projects:
(1) The Port of Panama, Posorja Deepwater Port in Ecuador.
(2) The Port of Paranagual in Brazil.
(3) The China Harbor in the Bahamas.
(4) The telecom infrastructure carried out by Chinese
companies, including Huawei and ZTE, in Colombia and Canada.
(5) The construction of the building for the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in Kingston, Jamaica.
(6) The building of the Coca Codo Sinclair Dam in Ecuador.
(7) The space-observation station in Argentina.
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