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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · S. 1997 (Introduced in Senate) — To promote peace through strength in Taiwan, and for other purposes. · Sec. 6

Sec. 6. Prohibition on doing business in China

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The Secretary of Defense shall require any contractor awarded a Department of Defense contract, as a condition of receiving such contract, not to conduct any business in the People’s Republic of China with any entity that is owned by or controlled by the Government of the People’s Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party, or any subsidiary of such a company. If the Secretary of Defense determines that a Department of Defense contractor is noncompliant with the requirement in subsection (a)— such noncompliance shall be considered grounds for termination of the contract; and the Secretary of Defense shall terminate the contract.
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