[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 120 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4059]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2358. 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 
     shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress 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, but is not limited to, 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.
       (c) Appropriate Committees of Congress.--In this section, 
     the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence 
     of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent Select Committee on 
     Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
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