Sec. 6525. REPORT ON SUPPORT PROVIDED BY CHINA TO RUSSIA

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## SEC. 6525 REPORT ON SUPPORT PROVIDED BY CHINA TO RUSSIA ###

(a)Definition of Appropriate Congressional Committees In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— ####

(1)the congressional intelligence committees; ####

(2)the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and ####

(3)the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Financial Services, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Ways and Means, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. ###

(b)Requirement Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter, consistent with the protection of intelligence sources and methods, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the heads of elements of the intelligence community that the Director determines appropriate, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on whether and how China, including with respect to the Government of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party, any Chinese state-owned enterprise, and any other Chinese entity, has provided support to Russia with respect to the unprovoked invasion of and full-scale war by Russia against Ukraine. ###

(c)Matters Included The report under subsection

(b)shall include a discussion of support provided by China to Russia with respect to— ####

(1)helping the Government of Russia or Russian entities evade or circumvent sanctions by the United States or multilateral sanctions and export controls; ####

(2)deliberately inhibiting onsite United States Government export control end-use checks, including interviews and investigations, in China; ####

(3)providing Russia with any technology, including semiconductors classified as EAR99, that supports Russian intelligence or military capabilities; ####

(4)establishing economic or financial arrangements that will have the effect of alleviating the effect of sanctions by the United States or multilateral sanctions; and ####

(5)providing any material, technical, or logistical support, including to Russian military or intelligence agencies and state-owned or state-linked enterprises. ###

(d)Form The report under subsection

(c)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex. ###

(e)Sunset The requirement to submit the report under subsection

(b)shall terminate on the earlier of— ####

(1)the date on which the Director of National Intelligence determines the conflict in Ukraine has ended; or ####

(2)the date that is 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.