Sec. 9. Report on national security threat of mobile applications utilized by the People’s Republic of China and Chinese Communist Party
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Not later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report describing— the scope of efforts by the People’s Republic of China and Chinese Communist Party to utilize mobile applications to perform espionage on U.S. citizens, and business and organizations located in the United States; the means and objectives of the People’s Republic of China and Chinese Communist Party in utilizing mobile applications to perform espionage and spread disinformation in the United States; and a detailed strategy regarding how the Secretary of State and the Attorney General intend to counter espionage and disinformation efforts conducted by the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party using mobile applications.
The report required by subsection
(a)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex if necessary. The unclassified portion of such report shall be made available on a publicly available internet website of the Federal Government. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Financial Services, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate.