Sec. 1261. Report and public notification on China’s military, maritime, and air activities in the Indo-Pacific region
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It is the sense of Congress that greater transparency of China’s provocative military, maritime, and air activities in the Indo-Pacific region would— aid in raising awareness of these activities in regional and international forums; enable regional security partners to more effectively protect their sovereignty and defend their rights under international law; and maintain stability within the region to enable constructive relations with China. The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees on a quarterly basis a report describing China’s provocative military, maritime, and air activities in the Indo-Pacific region.
The report shall, at minimum, address China’s provocative military, maritime, and air activities, military deployments, and operations and infrastructure construction in the East China Sea, South China Sea, Taiwan Strait, and Indian Ocean. The report shall be disseminated to regional allies and partners, as appropriate, in the Indo-Pacific region. The report may include imagery from military aircraft and other sources with supporting analysis to describe China’s provocative maritime and air activities.
The report shall be available to the public and shall be submitted or carried out in unclassified form. The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State, shall provide notice to the public of any activities described in paragraph
(2)immediately after the initiation of any such activities. The activities described in this paragraph are any significant destabilizing or deceptive activities of China, including reclamation or militarization activity in the Indo-Pacific region, use of military, government, or commercial aircraft or maritime vessels to intimidate regional neighbors. As soon as practicable after the notification to the public under paragraph
(1)of any activities described in paragraph (2), the Secretary of Defense shall distribute to the appropriate congressional committees and United States allies and security partners in the Indo-Pacific region a written summary to include imagery and supporting analysis describing such activities. The dissemination and availability of the report under subsection
(b)and the notification to the public under subsection
(c)shall be made in a manner consistent with national security and the protection of classified national security information. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional defense committees; and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.