Sec. 1256. Report on China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative in Africa
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Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State and the Director of National Intelligence, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the military and defense implications of China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative in Africa and a strategy to address impacts on United States military and defense interests in Africa. The report required by subsection
(a)shall include the following: An assessment of Chinese dual-use investments in Africa, including a description of which investments that are of greatest concern to United States military or defense interests. A description of such investments that are associated with People’s Liberation Army cooperation with African countries. An assessment of the potential military, intelligence, and logistical threats facing United States’ key regional military infrastructure, supply chains, and staging grounds due to such investments. An identification of Department of Defense measures taken to mitigate the risk posed to United States forces and defense interests by such investments. A strategy to address ongoing military and defense implications posed by the expansion of such investments. In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. The term Chinese dual-use investments in Africa means investments made by the Government of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party, or companies owned or controlled by such Government or Party in the infrastructure of African countries or related projects for both commercial and military or proliferation purposes. The report required by subsection
(a)shall— be submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified annex; and be made available to the public on the website of the Department of Defense.