S.Amdt. 809

SA 809. Mr. ROMNEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 764 submitted by Mr. Inhofe and intended to be proposed to
the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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 E of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1262. POLICY WITH RESPECT TO EXPANSION OF COOPERATION
WITH ALLIES AND PARTNERS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC
REGION AND EUROPE REGARDING THE PEOPLE'S
REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Congress supports the finding on the People's Republic
of China articulated in the 2018 National Defense Strategy
and the 2017 National Security Strategy.
(2) The People's Republic of China is leveraging military
modernization, influence operations, and predatory economics
to coerce neighboring countries to reorder the Indo-Pacific
region to the advantage of the People's Republic of China.
(3) As the People's Republic of China continues its
economic and military ascendance, asserting power through a
whole of government long-term strategy, the People's Republic
of China will continue to pursue a military modernization
program that seeks Indo-Pacific regional hegemony in the
near-term and displacement of the United States to achieve
global preeminence in the future.
(4) The most far-reaching objective of the defense strategy
of the United States is to set the military relationship
between the United States and the People's Republic of China
on a path toward transparency and nonaggression.
(5) The People's Republic of China uses economic
inducements and penalties, influence operations, and implied
military threats to persuade other countries to heed the
political and security agenda of the People's Republic of
China.
(6) United States allies and partners are critical to
effective competition with the People's Republic of China.
(b) Statement of Policy.--It is the policy of the United
States--
(1) to expand military, diplomatic, and economic alliances
and partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region and with Europe
and like-minded countries around the globe that are critical
to effective competition with the People's Republic of China;
and
(2) to develop, in collaboration with such allies and
partners, a unified approach to addressing and deterring
significant diplomatic, economic, and military challenges
posed by the People's Republic of China.
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