Sec. 1705. Study on Chinese policies and influence in the development of international standards for emerging technologies
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall enter into an agreement with an appropriate non-governmental entity with relevant expertise, as determined by the Director, to conduct a study and make recommendations with respect to the impact of the policies of the People’s Republic of China and coordination among industrial entities within the People’s Republic of China on international bodies engaged in developing and setting international standards for emerging technologies.
The study may include— an assessment of how the role of the People’s Republic of China in international standards setting organizations has grown over the previous 10 years, including in leadership roles in standards-drafting technical committees, and the quality or value of that participation; an assessment of the impact of the standardization strategy of the People’s Republic of China, as identified in the Chinese Standard 2035 on international bodies engaged in developing and setting standards for select emerging technologies, such as advanced communication technologies or cloud computing and cloud services; an examination of whether international standards for select emerging technologies are being designed to promote interests of the People’s Republic of China that are expressed in the Made in China 2025 plan to the exclusion of other participants; an examination of how the previous practices that the People’s Republic of China has utilized while participating in international standards setting organizations may foretell how the People’s Republic of China will engage in international standardization activities of critical technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum information science, and what may be the consequences; recommendations on how the United States can take steps to mitigate influence of the People’s Republic of China and bolster United States public and private sector participation in international standards-setting bodies; and any other areas the Director, in consultation with the entity selected to conduct the study, believes is important to address.
The agreement entered into under subsection
(a)shall require the entity conducting the study to, not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act— submit to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report containing the findings and recommendations of the review conducted under subsection (a); and make a copy of such report available on a publicly accessible website.