22 U.S.C. § 7003: Strategy to respond to…

Summary

Require the Director of National Intelligence to send Congress, within 180 days after December 18, 2025, an intelligence report on how Chinese overseas bases or possible bases could hurt the United States’ or its allies’ ability to use military force, move freely, and protect their interests. That report may be classified. Require the Secretary of State, working with the Secretary of Defense and other top officials, to send Congress, within 180 days after December 18, 2025, a strategy that does four things: pick at least 5 places where a Chinese presence could become a global base and pose the biggest risk; list which government agencies are involved and what staff and money they need; explain current and planned U.S. efforts and resources to stop those bases and reduce harm; and, for each risky place, say what actions by the United States or its allies would best prevent the host country from allowing a Chinese global base. Within 90 days after that strategy is sent, an interagency task force must be formed to carry it out and to find ways to stop bases elsewhere. Every 4 years, starting no later than 4 years after the strategy, the Secretary of State (with others) must review the approach and report updates to Congress. “Appropriate congressional committees” means the main Senate and House committees on foreign relations/affairs, armed services, intelligence, and appropriations. “PRC” means the People’s Republic of China. A “PRC global base” means any physical site outside China that hosts Chinese military, intelligence, or security forces or infrastructure that supports them for projecting power.

Title 22, §7003

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(a)Assessment

(1)In general

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)Form

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

(b)Strategy

(1)In general

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)Contents

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)Task force

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)Quadrennial reviews and reports

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)Definitions

In this section: (1) Appropriate congressional committees

(2)PRC

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

(3)PRC global base

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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Title 22, §7003

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