[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2660-S2661]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 524. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2024 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 D of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1269. STRATEGY FOR COUNTERING THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF 
                   CHINA.

       (a) Identification of Vulnerabilities and Leverage.--Not 
     later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, the President shall submit to the appropriate committees 
     of Congress a report that identifies--
       (1) goods and services from the United States that are 
     relied on by the People's Republic of China such that that 
     reliance presents a strategic opportunity and source of 
     leverage against the People's Republic of China, including 
     during a conflict; and
       (2) procurement practices of the United States Government 
     that are reliant on trade with the People's Republic of China 
     and other inputs from the People's Republic of China, such 
     that that reliance presents a strategic vulnerability and 
     source of leverage that the Chinese Communist Party could 
     exploit, including during a conflict.
       (b) Strategy To Respond to Coercive Action.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     submission of the report required by subsection (a), the 
     President shall submit to the appropriate committees of 
     Congress a report, utilizing the findings of the report 
     required by subsection (a), that describes a comprehensive 
     sanctions strategy to advise policymakers on policies the 
     United States and allies and partners of the United States 
     could adopt with respect to the People's Republic of China in 
     response to any coercive action, including an invasion, by 
     the People's Republic of China that infringes upon the 
     territorial sovereignty of Taiwan by preventing access to 
     international waterways, airspace, or telecommunications 
     networks.
       (2) Elements.--The strategy required by paragraph (1) shall 
     include policies that--
       (A) restrict the access of the People's Liberation Army to 
     oil, natural gas, munitions, and other supplies needed to 
     conduct military operations against Taiwan, United States 
     facilities in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and allies and 
     partners of the United States in the region;
       (B) diminish the capacity of the industrial base of the 
     People's Republic of China to manufacture and deliver defense 
     articles to replace those lost in operations of the People's 
     Liberation Army against Taiwan, the United States, and allies 
     and partners of the United States;
       (C) inhibit the ability of the People's Republic of China 
     to evade United States and multilateral sanctions through 
     third parties, including through secondary sanctions;
       (D) identify specific sanctions-related tools that may be 
     effective in responding to coercive action described in 
     paragraph (1) and assess the feasibility of the use and 
     impact of the use of those tools;
       (E) identify and resolve potential impediments to 
     coordinating sanctions-related efforts with respect to 
     responding to or deterring aggression against Taiwan with 
     allies and partners of the United States;
       (F) identify industries, sectors, or goods and services 
     with respect to which the United States, working with allies 
     and partners of the United States, can take coordinated 
     action through sanctions or other economic tools that will 
     have a significant negative impact on the economy of the 
     People's Republic of China; and
       (G) identify tactics used by the Government of the People's 
     Republic of China to influence the public in the United 
     States and Taiwan through propaganda and disinformation 
     campaigns, including such campaigns focused on delegitimizing 
     Taiwan or legitimizing a forceful action by the People's 
     Republic of China against Taiwan.
       (c) Recommendations for Reduction of Vulnerabilities and 
     Leverage.--Not later than 180 days after the submission of 
     the report required by subsection (a), the President shall 
     submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report 
     that--
       (1) identifies critical sectors within the United States 
     economy that rely on trade with the People's Republic of 
     China and other inputs from the People's Republic of China 
     (including active pharmaceutical ingredients, rare earth 
     minerals, and metallurgical inputs), such that those sectors 
     present a strategic vulnerability and source of leverage that 
     the Chinese Communist Party or the People's Republic of China 
     could exploit; and
       (2) makes recommendations to Congress on steps that can be 
     taken to reduce the sources of leverage described in 
     paragraph (1) and subsection (a)(1), including through--
       (A) provision of economic incentives and making other trade 
     and contracting reforms to support United States industry and 
     job growth in critical sectors and to indigenize production 
     of critical resources; and
       (B) policies to facilitate ``near- or friend-shoring'', or 
     otherwise developing strategies to facilitate that process 
     with allies and partners of the United States, in other 
     sectors for which domestic reshoring would prove infeasible 
     for any reason.

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       (d) Form.--The reports required by subsections (a), (b), 
     and (c) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may 
     include a classified annex.
       (e) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on 
     Armed Services, the Select Committee on Intelligence, the 
     Committee on Finance, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
     Urban Affairs, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 
     and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 
     the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 
     Armed Services, the Committee on Financial Services, the 
     Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on Natural 
     Resources, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
     of the House of Representatives.
       (f) Rule of Construction on Maintaining One China Policy.--
     Nothing in this section may be construed as a change to the 
     one China policy of the United States, which is guided by the 
     Taiwan Relations Act (22 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.), the three 
     United States-People's Republic of China Joint Communiques, 
     and the Six Assurances.
       (g) Rule of Construction Regarding Not Authorizing the Use 
     of Force.--Nothing in this section may be construed as 
     authorizing the use of military force.
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