[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 19, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2799-S2800]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1550. Mr. MARKEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to 
establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the 
National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub 
program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, 
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to 
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        Strike section 3503 and insert the following:

     SEC. 503. REPORT ON UNITED STATES EFFORTS TO ENGAGE THE 
                   PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ON NUCLEAR ISSUES 
                   AND BALLISTIC MISSILE ISSUES.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) The People's Republic of China has not entered into a 
     treaty or agreement with the United States or any other party 
     that places binding limits on its shorter-range, 
     intermediate-, or strategic-range ballistic missiles, 
     verified by national technical means and by on-site 
     inspections, as the United States and the Russian Federation 
     have done through the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) 
     Treaty, the START I and START II Treaties, and the New START 
     Treaty, each of which took multiple years to successfully 
     negotiate.
       (2) The People's Republic of China possesses significantly 
     fewer intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine launched 
     ballistic missiles, and heavy bombers than the Russian 
     Federation or the United States, and according to the Defense 
     Intelligence Agency, the People's Republic of China's warhead 
     stockpile is in the ``the low couple of hundreds'', a 
     fraction of the size of the arsenals of the Russian 
     Federation and the United States.
       (3) The People's Republic of China has repeatedly declined 
     invitations by the United States to enter into trilateral 
     negotiations for an arms control treaty or other agreement 
     regarding its nuclear arsenal.
       (b) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in 
     consultation

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     with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Energy, 
     shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
     report that sets forth a plan to engage the People's Republic 
     of China on steps that reduce the risk of strategic 
     miscalculation and the threat of a nuclear exchange, which 
     may include any of the following proposals:
       (1) A formal invitation to appropriate officials from the 
     People's Republic of China, and to each of the permanent 
     members of the United Nations Security Council, to observe a 
     United States-Russian Federation New START Treaty on-site 
     inspection to demonstrate the security benefits of 
     transparency into strategic nuclear forces.
       (2) Negotiations toward a treaty or agreement that 
     prohibits the production of fissile material.
       (3) An agreement with the People's Republic of China that 
     allows for advance notifications of ballistic missile 
     launches, through the Hague Code of Conduct or other data 
     exchanges or doctrine discussions related to strategic 
     nuclear forces.
       (4) An agreement not to target or interfere in nuclear 
     command, control, and communications (commonly referred to as 
     ``NC3'') infrastructure.
       (5) An agreement on transparency measures or verifiable 
     limits, or both, on hypersonic cruise missiles and glide 
     vehicles that are mounted on ballistic missiles.
       (6) Any other cooperative measure that benefits United 
     States-People's Republic of China strategic stability.
       (c) Form of the Report.--The report required by subsection 
     (b) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a 
     classified annex.
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