Sec. 6. Assessing the intentions of the People’s Republic of China in the Western Hemisphere
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In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate ; the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate ; the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives ; and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives . Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, working through the Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that assesses the nature, intent, and impact to United States strategic interests of— Chinese economic activity in Latin America and the Caribbean, such as foreign direct investment, development financing, oil-for-loans deals, other preferential trading arrangements, and projects related to China’s Belt and Road Initiative; the involvement of Chinese government entities and state-owned enterprises in infrastructure projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, such as— the building, renovating, and operating of port facilities, including the Margarita Port of Panama, Posorja Deepwater Port in Ecuador, and the Port of Paranaguá in Brazil; the building and maintenance of the region’s telecom infrastructure, including the bidding and construction of fiber optic submarine cables and the installation of 5G technologies, by Chinese companies, including Huawei, ZTE, and possibly others, and the likelihood that these companies will be the dominant providers of telecommunications infrastructure and associated products and services in the region, with great influence over Latin American government telecom entities; the building of government facilities in the region; and the building of Ecuador’s Coca Codo Sinclair Dam and other energy infrastructure projects in the region;
Chinese military activity in the region, including military education and training programs, weapons sales, and space-related activities in the military or civilian spheres, such as the major satellite and space control station China recently constructed in Argentina; Chinese security activity in Latin America and the Caribbean, including sales of surveillance and monitoring technology to regional governments such as Venezuela, Cuba, and Ecuador, and the potential use of such technology as tools of Chinese intelligence;
Chinese intelligence engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the development of dual-use platforms; the nature of the People’s Republic of China’s presence in the region, and whether it is competitive, threatening, or benign to the United States national interests; and Chinese diplomatic activity aimed at influencing the decisions, procedures, and programs of multilateral organizations, including the Organization of American States
(OAS)and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), as well the work in Latin America and the Caribbean of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). In preparing the report required under subsection (b), the Secretary of State shall coordinate with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, as feasible. The report required under subsection
(b)shall be submitted in unclassified form and shall include classified annexes.