Sec. 4. Active Measures Working Group for the Chinese Communist Party
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Congress finds the following: The Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere , an April 22, 2013, notice from the Communist Party of China’s
(CCP)Central Committee more commonly known as Document 9 , establishes that under the leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the CCP considers constitutional democracy, internationally recognized human rights, liberal economics, independent journalism, and internal dissent to be security threats. In his remarks before the 19th Communist Party Congress in 2017, which were titled in part Strive for the Great Success of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era , General Secretary Xi Jinping said, the banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics is now flying high and proud for all to see. It means that the path, the theory, the system, and the culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics have kept developing, blazing a new trail for other developing countries to achieve modernization. It offers a new option for other countries and nations. . It is the sense of Congress that the CCP is hostile to United States values and seeks to advance an alternate set of authoritarian values, and therefore that the CCP and its ability to influence global discourse is a national security threat to the United States. The Secretary of State shall reconstitute the Active Measures Working Group (in this section referred to as the Working Group ) for a period of five years. The purpose of the Working Group shall be to create a regularly updated information statecraft strategy for the whole of the United States Government to reduce the ability of the CCP to influence global discourse. The Working Group shall include the following officials: The Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy of the Department of State. The Assistant Secretary of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and the Assistant Secretary of South and Central Asian Affairs of the Department of State. The Special Envoy and Coordinator of the Global Engagement Center. The Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Asia of the United States Agency for International Development. The Assistant Secretary for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs of the Department of Defense. The Commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command. Other officials the Secretary of State and the President determine appropriate. The Secretary of State shall designate a member of the Working Group as the Chairperson. The President shall ensure that the various agencies and departments of the United States cooperate with the Working Group, adopt and effectuate the information statecraft strategy required under subsection (h), and share information appropriately to advance the strategy. Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Working Group shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees and distribute to each Federal department and agency an information statecraft strategy. The information statecraft strategy and biannual updates thereto required under this subsection shall include the following: An identification of the specific CCP narratives that most contribute to the CCP’s ability to influence global discourse, and the entities primarily responsible for advancing these narratives and contributing to the CCP’s ability to influence global discourse. An identification of counternarratives most effective and most likely to reduce the ability of the CCP to influence global discourse and discredit the entities that contribute to the CCP’s ability to influence global discourse. A detailed plan, including instructions for public diplomacy officers at each United States diplomatic or consular post, to implement such counternarratives. An identification of specific quantitative objectives for advancing such counternarratives, and an identification of the United States officials responsible for accomplishing such objectives. A quantitative analysis of United States efforts to accomplish such objectives in the preceding six months, informed by the data and analytical capabilities of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy of the Department of State and the Global Engagement Center. Not later than 180 days after the submission of the information statecraft strategy under paragraph
(1)and every 180 days thereafter for a period of five years, the Working Group shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees an updated information statecraft strategy. The information statecraft strategy and biannual updates thereto required under this subsection may be in classified form. The Secretary of State should ensure that each United States chief of mission— advances through both programming and communications the objectives of the information statecraft strategy and biannual updates thereto; assigns at least one Foreign Service officer to be primarily responsible for coordinating such efforts at the United States diplomatic or consular post at which such chief of mission is assigned; and provides quantitative data to the Working Group about the efforts of such chief of mission to accomplish the objectives of the strategy, including updates thereto.