[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 133 (Friday, August 1, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S5383]
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SA 3616. Mr. RISCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 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 title XII, add the following:
Subtitle F--Deterring Aggression Against Taiwan
SEC. 1271. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the ``Deter PRC Aggression
Against Taiwan Act''.
SEC. 1272. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that the United States must be
prepared to take immediate action to impose sanctions with
respect to any military or non-military entities owned,
controlled, or acting at the direction of the Government of
the PRC or the Chinese Communist Party that are supporting
actions by the Government of the PRC or by the Chinese
Communist Party--
(1) to overthrow or dismantle the governing institutions in
Taiwan;
(2) to occupy any territory controlled or administered by
Taiwan;
(3) to violate the territorial integrity of Taiwan; or
(4) to take significant action against Taiwan, including--
(A) conducting a naval blockade of Taiwan;
(B) seizing any outlying island of Taiwan; or
(C) perpetrating a significant physical or cyber attack on
Taiwan that erodes the ability of the governing institutions
in Taiwan to operate or provide essential services to the
citizens of Taiwan.
SEC. 1273. DEFINITIONS.
In this subtitle:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate;
(B) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of
the Senate;
(C) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
of the Senate;
(D) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives;
(E) the Committee on Financial Services of the House of
Representatives; and
(F) the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of
Representatives.
(2) PRC.--The term ``PRC'' means the People's Republic of
China.
(3) PRC sanctions task force; task force.--The terms ``PRC
Sanctions Task Force'' and ``Task Force'' mean the task force
established pursuant to section 1274.
SEC. 1274. TASK FORCE.
(a) Establishment.--Not later than 180 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Coordinator for Sanctions
of the Department of State and the Director of the Office of
Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury, in
coordination with the Director of National Intelligence and
the heads of other Federal agencies, as appropriate, shall
establish an interagency task force to identify military or
non-military entities that could be subject to sanctions or
other economic actions imposed by the United States
immediately following any action taken by the PRC that
demonstrates an attempt to achieve, or has the significant
effect of achieving, the physical or political control of
Taiwan, including by taking any of the actions described in
paragraphs (1) through (4) of section 1272.
(b) Strategy.--Not later than 180 days after the
establishment of the PRC Sanctions Task Force, the Task Force
shall submit a strategy to the appropriate congressional
committees for identifying proposed targets for sanctions or
other economic actions referred to in subsection (a), which
shall--
(1) assess how existing sanctions programs could be used to
impose sanctions with respect to entities identified by the
Task Force;
(2) develop or propose, as appropriate, new sanctions
authorities that might be required to impose sanctions with
respect to such entities;
(3) analyze the potential economic consequences to the
United States, and to allies and partners of the United
States, of imposing various types of such sanctions with
respect to such entities;
(4) assess measures that could be taken to mitigate the
consequences referred to in paragraph (3), including through
the use of licenses, exemptions, carve-outs, and other
approaches;
(5) include coordination with allies and partners of the
United States--
(A) to leverage sanctions and other economic tools
including actions targeting the PRC's financial and
industrial sectors to deter or respond to aggression against
Taiwan;
(B) to identify and resolve potential impediments to
coordinating sanctions-related efforts or other economic
actions with respect to responding to or deterring aggression
against Taiwan; and
(C) to identify industries, sectors, or goods and services
where the United States and 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 PRC; and
(D) to coordinate actions with partners and allies to
provide economic support to Taiwan and other countries being
threatened by the PRC, including measures to counter economic
coercion by the PRC;
(6) assess the resource gaps and needs at the Department of
State, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of
Commerce, the United States Trade Representative, and other
Federal agencies, as appropriate, to most effectively use
sanctions and other economic tools to respond to the threats
posed by the PRC;
(7) recommend how best to target sanctions and other
economic tools against individuals, entities, and economic
sectors in the PRC, which shall take into account--
(A) the role of such targets in supporting policies and
activities of the Government of the PRC, or of the Chinese
Communist Party, that pose a threat to the national security
or foreign policy interests of the United States;
(B) the negative economic implications of such sanctions
and tools for the Government of the PRC, including its
ability to achieve its objectives with respect to Taiwan; and
(C) the potential impact of such sanctions and tools on the
stability of the global financial system, including with
respect to--
(i) state-owned enterprises;
(ii) officials of the Government of the PRC and of the
Chinese Communist Party;
(iii) financial institutions associated with the Government
of the PRC; and
(iv) companies in the PRC that are not formally designated
by the Government of the PRC as state-owned enterprises; and
(8) identify any foreign military or non-military entities
that would likely be used to achieve the outcomes specified
in section 1272, including entities in the shipping,
logistics, energy (including oil and gas), maritime,
aviation, ground transportation, and technology sectors.
SEC. 1275. REPORT.
Not later than 60 days after the submission of the strategy
required under section 1274(b), and semiannually thereafter,
the PRC Sanctions Task Force shall submit a classified report
to the appropriate congressional committees that includes
information regarding--
(1) any entities identified pursuant to section 1274(b)(8);
(2) any new authorities required to impose sanctions with
respect to such entities;
(3) potential economic impacts on the PRC, the United
States, and allies and partners of the United States
resulting from the imposition of sanctions with respect to
such entities;
(4) mitigation measures that could be employed to limit any
deleterious economic impacts on the United States and allies
and partners of the United States of such sanctions;
(5) the status of coordination with allies and partners of
the United States regarding sanctions and other economic
tools identified under this subtitle;
(6) resource gaps and recommendations to enable the
Department of State and the Department of the Treasury to use
sanctions to more effectively respond to the malign
activities of the Government of the PRC; and
(7) any additional resources that may be necessary to carry
out the strategies and recommendations included in the report
submitted pursuant to section 1274(b).
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