§7003 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

Requires the Director of National Intelligence to send an intelligence report to certain congressional committees within 180 days after December 18, 2025. The report must analyze how Chinese overseas bases or places that could become bases might hurt the United States’ or its allies’ ability to use military power, move freely, and protect their interests. That report can be submitted in classified form. Also requires the Secretary of State, working with the Secretary of Defense and other senior officials, to send a strategy to those same committees within 180 days after December 18, 2025. The strategy must pick at least 5 locations (from places where China has or may be seeking a physical presence that could become bases) that pose the greatest risk; list the executive-branch agencies involved and estimate money and staff needs and any limits; explain in detail what the U.S. is doing to reduce harms and stop those bases; and say, for each named location, what actions by the United States or allies would best prevent the host country from hosting a Chinese base. Within 90 days after the strategy is sent, the Secretary of State must set up an interagency task force to carry out the strategy and to find ways to stop China from creating bases in other places. Not later than 4 years after the strategy is sent, and at least once every 4 years after that, the Secretary of State (with the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, and other senior officials) must review the approach and send the review and updated information to the same committees. “Appropriate congressional committees” means the Senate committees on Foreign Relations, Armed Services, Intelligence, and Appropriations, and the House committees on Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, Intelligence, and Appropriations. “PRC” means the People’s Republic of China. “PRC global base” means a physical site outside the PRC used by Chinese military, intelligence, or security forces, or the infrastructure to support them, for projecting power.

Title 22, §7003

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(a)(1)Not later than 180 days after December 18, 2025, the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees an intelligence assessment analyzing the risk posed by PRC global bases and potential PRC global bases identified pursuant to subsection (b)(2)(A) to the ability of the United States or any United States ally to project power, maintain freedom of movement, and protect other interests.

(2)The assessment required in this subsection may be submitted in classified form.

(b)(1)Not later than 180 days after December 18, 2025, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense and other appropriate senior Federal officials, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees the strategy described in paragraph (2).

(2)The strategy described in this paragraph shall—

(A)identify, of the locations where the PRC maintains or is suspected to be seeking a physical presence and that could transition into PRC global bases, not fewer than 5 locations that pose the greatest risk to the ability of the United States or any United States ally to project power, maintain freedom of movement, and protect other interests;

(B)include a comprehensive list of executive branch entities involved in addressing aspects of PRC global base establishment, including estimated programmatic and personal resource requirements on an agency-by-agency basis to effectively address the issue of potential PRC global base establishment, and any relevant resource constraints;

(C)describe in detail all executive branch efforts to mitigate the impacts to the national interests of the United States and partner countries of the locations described in subparagraph (A) and prevent the establishment of PRC global bases, including with resources described pursuant to subparagraph (B); and

(D)for each of the locations identified pursuant to subparagraph (A), identify the actions by the United States or United States allies that would be most effective in ensuring that the government of the country in which such location is located does not host a PRC global base.

(c)Not later than 90 days after the submission of the strategy required in subsection (b), the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense and other appropriate senior Federal officials, shall establish an interagency task force—

(1)to implement such strategy to counter the PRC’s efforts to establish PRC global bases at the locations identified pursuant to subsection (b)(2)(A); and

(2)to identify mitigation measures that would prevent the PRC from establishing PRC global bases in locations other than the locations identified pursuant to subsection (b)(2)(A).

(d)Not later than 4 years after the submission of the strategy required in subsection (b), and not less frequently than once every 4 years thereafter, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, and other appropriate senior Federal officials, shall—

(1)conduct a review of the Executive Branch’s strategy and overall approach in response to efforts by the PRC to establish PRC global bases; and

(2)submit to the appropriate congressional committees the results of such review and the updated information described in subsection (b)(2).

(e)In this section:

(1)The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

(A)the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate;

(B)the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate;

(C)the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate;

(D)the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;

(E)the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives;

(F)the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives;

(G)the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives; and

(H)the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.

(2)The term “PRC” means the People’s Republic of China.

(3)The term “PRC global base” means a physical location outside of the PRC where the PRC maintains an element of the People’s Liberation Army, PRC intelligence or security forces, or infrastructure designed to support the presence of PRC military, intelligence, or security forces, for the purposes of power projection.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, and not as part of the U.S.-China Relations Act of 2000, which comprises this chapter.

§7003 Strategy to Respond to Global Bases of the People’s Republic of China

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