S.Amdt. 1550

SA 1550. Mr. MARKEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to
establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the
National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub
program, to require a strategy and report on economic security,
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Strike section 3503 and insert the following:

SEC. 503. REPORT ON UNITED STATES EFFORTS TO ENGAGE THE
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ON NUCLEAR ISSUES
AND BALLISTIC MISSILE ISSUES.

(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The People's Republic of China has not entered into a
treaty or agreement with the United States or any other party
that places binding limits on its shorter-range,
intermediate-, or strategic-range ballistic missiles,
verified by national technical means and by on-site
inspections, as the United States and the Russian Federation
have done through the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF)
Treaty, the START I and START II Treaties, and the New START
Treaty, each of which took multiple years to successfully
negotiate.
(2) The People's Republic of China possesses significantly
fewer intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine launched
ballistic missiles, and heavy bombers than the Russian
Federation or the United States, and according to the Defense
Intelligence Agency, the People's Republic of China's warhead
stockpile is in the ``the low couple of hundreds'', a
fraction of the size of the arsenals of the Russian
Federation and the United States.
(3) The People's Republic of China has repeatedly declined
invitations by the United States to enter into trilateral
negotiations for an arms control treaty or other agreement
regarding its nuclear arsenal.
(b) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in
consultation

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with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Energy,
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a
report that sets forth a plan to engage the People's Republic
of China on steps that reduce the risk of strategic
miscalculation and the threat of a nuclear exchange, which
may include any of the following proposals:
(1) A formal invitation to appropriate officials from the
People's Republic of China, and to each of the permanent
members of the United Nations Security Council, to observe a
United States-Russian Federation New START Treaty on-site
inspection to demonstrate the security benefits of
transparency into strategic nuclear forces.
(2) Negotiations toward a treaty or agreement that
prohibits the production of fissile material.
(3) An agreement with the People's Republic of China that
allows for advance notifications of ballistic missile
launches, through the Hague Code of Conduct or other data
exchanges or doctrine discussions related to strategic
nuclear forces.
(4) An agreement not to target or interfere in nuclear
command, control, and communications (commonly referred to as
``NC3'') infrastructure.
(5) An agreement on transparency measures or verifiable
limits, or both, on hypersonic cruise missiles and glide
vehicles that are mounted on ballistic missiles.
(6) Any other cooperative measure that benefits United
States-People's Republic of China strategic stability.
(c) Form of the Report.--The report required by subsection
(b) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a
classified annex.
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