Sec. 501. Cooperation on a strategic nuclear dialogue
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It is the policy of the United States— to pursue, in coordination with United States allies, arms control negotiations and sustained and regular engagement with the PRC— to enhance understanding of each other’s respective nuclear policies, doctrine, and capabilities; to improve transparency; and to help manage the risks of miscalculation and misperception; to formulate a strategy to engage the Government of the People’s Republic of China on relevant issues that lays the groundwork for a constructive arms control framework, including— fostering dialogue on arms control leading to the convening of strategic security talks; negotiating norms for outer space; developing pre-launch notification regimes aimed at reducing nuclear miscalculation; and expanding lines of communication between both governments for the purposes of reducing the risks of conventional war and increasing transparency; to pursue relevant negotiations in coordination with our allies and partners to ensure the security of United States and allied interests to slow the PRC’s military modernization and expansion, including on— ground-launched cruise and ballistic missiles; integrated air and missile defense; hypersonic missiles; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; space-based capabilities; cyber capabilities; and command, control, and communications; and to ensure that the United States policy continues to reassure allies.
It is the sense of Congress that— it is in the interest of both nations to cooperate in reducing risks of conventional and nuclear escalation; a physical, cyber, electronic, or any other PLA attack on United States early warning satellites, other portions of the nuclear command and control enterprise, or critical infrastructure poses a high risk to inadvertent but rapid escalation; the United States and its allies should promote international norms on military operations in space, the employment of cyber capabilities, and the military use of artificial intelligence, as an element of risk reduction regarding nuclear command and control; and United States allies and partners should share the burden of promoting and protecting norms regarding the weaponization of space, highlighting unsafe behavior that violates international norms, such as in rendezvous and proximity operations, and promoting responsible behavior in space and all other domains.