S.Amdt. 2358

SA 2358. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2301 proposed by Mr. Inhofe to the bill S. 4049, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle G of title XII, add the following:

SEC. __. REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF
CHINA IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.

(a) In General.--The Director of National Intelligence
shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a
report on the economic, trade, environmental, military,
security, and political activities of the People's Republic
of China in the Western Hemisphere, including direct
investment, development financing, loan deals, and state-
owned enterprises in infrastructure and telecommunications
projects.
(b) Element.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include, but is not limited to, an assessment of the
activities of the People's Republic of China with respect to
the following projects:
(1) The Port of Panama, Posorja Deepwater Port in Ecuador.
(2) The Port of Paranagual in Brazil.
(3) The China Harbor in the Bahamas.
(4) The telecom infrastructure carried out by Chinese
companies, including Huawei and ZTE, in Colombia and Canada.
(5) The construction of the building for the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in Kingston, Jamaica.
(6) The building of the Coca Codo Sinclair Dam in Ecuador.
(7) The space-observation station in Argentina.
(c) Appropriate Committees of Congress.--In this section,
the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence
of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
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