S.Amdt. 2663

SA 2663. Mr. RISCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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 F of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1291. RESTRICTION ON TRACK 1.5 DIALOGUES WITH THE
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

(a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the PRC has undertaken a breathtaking expansion of its
nuclear weapons and missile arsenal and is now engaged in a
sprint to strategic parity with the United States;
(2) the PRC has failed to respond to United States efforts
to participate in confidence-building measures related to
strategic issues or to establish official dialogues with the
United States on crisis stability and arms race stability;
(3) the PRC is not implementing previously agreed to
military-to-military confidence-building measures that
require notification of major military exercises, nor is it
adhering to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Rules of
Behavior for Safety of Air and Maritime Encounters between
the Department of Defense of the United States of America and
the Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of
China, done at Washington and Beijing November 9, 2014, or
its supplemental agreements;
(4) the PRC is failing to adhere to its commitment under
Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons, done at Washington, London, and Moscow July 1, 1968
(commonly referred to as the ``Nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty'' or the ``NPT''), ``to pursue negotiations in good
faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the
nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear
disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete
disarmament under strict and effective international
control'';
(5) the PRC's nuclear weapons expansion is designed to
undermine extended deterrence commitments made by the United
States to allies in the Indo-Pacific region;
(6) Sino-Russian nuclear energy cooperation is designed in
part to generate additional fissile material to help fuel the
PRC's nuclear weapons expansion;
(7) the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) does not share the
United States interest in preventing proliferation and has
been a central contributor to fostering the nuclear weapons
and ballistic missile programs of Pakistan, North Korea, and
Iran;
(8) the United States should not continue to solicit
Chinese participation in arms control talks;
(9) multilateral fora like P-5 meetings of the nuclear-
weapon states (as defined in the Nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty) are ineffective and are used by the Chinese Communist
Party to create the appearance of cooperation; and
(10) the United States should cease funding and
participating in Track 1.5 dialogues with the PRC on nuclear
weapons, strategic space, and missile defense, which have not
led to beneficial outcomes in government-to-government
discussions on those topics and provide the PRC with insight
and know how into nuclear strategy and other topics without
providing reciprocal insight for the United States.
(b) Defined Term.--In this section, the term ``Track 1.5
dialogue'' means a dialogue or other meeting on a policy
issue or issues that includes nongovernment representatives
and government representatives.
(c) Limitation on Use of Funds.--No amounts appropriated or
otherwise made available to the Department of State or the
Department of Defense may be obligated or expended for any
diplomatic or military-to-military Track 1.5 dialogues on
nuclear, missile defense, or space policy with any entity
under the direct control of the Chinese Communist Party or
the Government of the People's Republic of China, including
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, or
the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of
China.
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