[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5265 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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117th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 5265
To require a strategy for countering the People's Republic of China.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
December 15, 2022
Mr. Rubio introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
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A BILL
To require a strategy for countering the People's Republic of China.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Taiwan Protection and National
Resilience Act of 2022''.
SEC. 2. 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 Secretary of
Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of
Commerce, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of the Office of
Federal Procurement Policy, and the Director of the Office of Science
and Technology Policy, 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; and
(2) procurement practices of the United States Armed Forces
and other Federal agencies 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.
(b) Strategy.--Not later than 180 days after the submission of the
report required by subsection (a)--
(1) the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the
Secretary of the Defense, the Secretary of Commerce, the
Secretary of State, the Director of the Office of Federal
Procurement Policy, and the Director of the Office of Science
and Technology Policy, 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 an invasion of Taiwan by the People's
Republic of China that--
(A) starves the People's Liberation Army of 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) diminishes 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; and
(C) inhibits the ability of the People's Republic
of China to evade United States and multilateral
sanctions through third parties, including through
secondary sanctions; and
(2) the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the
Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the Director of
National Intelligence, the United States Trade Representative,
the Director of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, and
the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy,
shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report
that--
(A) 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 could exploit; and
(B) makes recommendations to Congress on steps that
can be taken to reduce the sources of leverage
described in subparagraph (A) and subsection (a)(1),
including through--
(i) 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
(ii) 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.
(c) Form.--The reports required by subsections (a) and (b) shall be
submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified annex.
(d) 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, 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, and the Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
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