[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4976]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2663. Mr. RISCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 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 F of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1291. RESTRICTION ON TRACK 1.5 DIALOGUES WITH THE 
                   PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the PRC has undertaken a breathtaking expansion of its 
     nuclear weapons and missile arsenal and is now engaged in a 
     sprint to strategic parity with the United States;
       (2) the PRC has failed to respond to United States efforts 
     to participate in confidence-building measures related to 
     strategic issues or to establish official dialogues with the 
     United States on crisis stability and arms race stability;
       (3) the PRC is not implementing previously agreed to 
     military-to-military confidence-building measures that 
     require notification of major military exercises, nor is it 
     adhering to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Rules of 
     Behavior for Safety of Air and Maritime Encounters between 
     the Department of Defense of the United States of America and 
     the Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of 
     China, done at Washington and Beijing November 9, 2014, or 
     its supplemental agreements;
       (4) the PRC is failing to adhere to its commitment under 
     Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear 
     Weapons, done at Washington, London, and Moscow July 1, 1968 
     (commonly referred to as the ``Nuclear Nonproliferation 
     Treaty'' or the ``NPT''), ``to pursue negotiations in good 
     faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the 
     nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear 
     disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete 
     disarmament under strict and effective international 
     control'';
       (5) the PRC's nuclear weapons expansion is designed to 
     undermine extended deterrence commitments made by the United 
     States to allies in the Indo-Pacific region;
       (6) Sino-Russian nuclear energy cooperation is designed in 
     part to generate additional fissile material to help fuel the 
     PRC's nuclear weapons expansion;
       (7) the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) does not share the 
     United States interest in preventing proliferation and has 
     been a central contributor to fostering the nuclear weapons 
     and ballistic missile programs of Pakistan, North Korea, and 
     Iran;
       (8) the United States should not continue to solicit 
     Chinese participation in arms control talks;
       (9) multilateral fora like P-5 meetings of the nuclear-
     weapon states (as defined in the Nuclear Nonproliferation 
     Treaty) are ineffective and are used by the Chinese Communist 
     Party to create the appearance of cooperation; and
       (10) the United States should cease funding and 
     participating in Track 1.5 dialogues with the PRC on nuclear 
     weapons, strategic space, and missile defense, which have not 
     led to beneficial outcomes in government-to-government 
     discussions on those topics and provide the PRC with insight 
     and know how into nuclear strategy and other topics without 
     providing reciprocal insight for the United States.
       (b) Defined Term.--In this section, the term ``Track 1.5 
     dialogue'' means a dialogue or other meeting on a policy 
     issue or issues that includes nongovernment representatives 
     and government representatives.
       (c) Limitation on Use of Funds.--No amounts appropriated or 
     otherwise made available to the Department of State or the 
     Department of Defense may be obligated or expended for any 
     diplomatic or military-to-military Track 1.5 dialogues on 
     nuclear, missile defense, or space policy with any entity 
     under the direct control of the Chinese Communist Party or 
     the Government of the People's Republic of China, including 
     the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, or 
     the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of 
     China.
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