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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 5265 

To require a strategy for countering the People’s Republic of China. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

DECEMBER 15, 2022 

Mr. RUBIO introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

A BILL 

To require a strategy for countering the People’s Republic 

of China. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Taiwan Protection and 

5 National Resilience Act of 2022’’. 

6 SEC. 2. STRATEGY FOR COUNTERING THE PEOPLE’S RE7 PUBLIC OF CHINA. 

8 (a) IDENTIFICATION OF VULNERABILITIES AND LE9 VERAGE.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the 

10 enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in con11 sultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of 


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1 Commerce, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of 

2 the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, and the Direc3 tor of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, shall 

4 submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report 

5 that identifies— 

6 (1) goods and services from the United States 

7 that are relied on by the People’s Republic of China 

8 such that that reliance presents a strategic oppor9 tunity and source of leverage against the People’s 

10 Republic of China; and 

11 (2) procurement practices of the United States 

12 Armed Forces and other Federal agencies that are 

13 reliant on trade with the People’s Republic of China 

14 and other inputs from the People’s Republic of 

15 China, such that that reliance presents a strategic 

16 vulnerability and source of leverage that the Chinese 

17 Communist Party could exploit. 

18 (b) STRATEGY.—Not later than 180 days after the 

19 submission of the report required by subsection (a)— 

20 (1) the Secretary of the Treasury, in consulta21 tion with the Secretary of the Defense, the Secretary 

22 of Commerce, the Secretary of State, the Director of 

23 the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, and the 

24 Director of the Office of Science and Technology 

25 Policy, shall submit to the appropriate committees of 


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1 Congress a report, utilizing the findings of the re2 port required by subsection (a), that describes a 

3 comprehensive sanctions strategy to advise policy4 makers on policies the United States and allies and 

5 partners of the United States could adopt with re6 spect to the People’s Republic of China in response 

7 to an invasion of Taiwan by the People’s Republic 

8 of China that— 

9 (A) starves the People’s Liberation Army 

10 of oil, natural gas, munitions, and other sup11 plies needed to conduct military operations 

12 against Taiwan, United States facilities in the 

13 Pacific and Indian Oceans, and allies and part14 ners of the United States in the region; 

15 (B) diminishes the capacity of the indus16 trial base of the People’s Republic of China to 

17 manufacture and deliver defense articles to re18 place those lost in operations of the People’s 

19 Liberation Army against Taiwan, the United 

20 States, and allies and partners of the United 

21 States; and 

22 (C) inhibits the ability of the People’s Re23 public of China to evade United States and 

24 multilateral sanctions through third parties, in25 cluding through secondary sanctions; and 


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1 (2) the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation 

2 with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of 

3 State, the Director of National Intelligence, the 

4 United States Trade Representative, the Director of 

5 the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, and the 

6 Director of the Office of Science and Technology 

7 Policy, shall submit to the appropriate committees of 

8 Congress a report that— 

9 (A) identifies critical sectors within the 

10 United States economy that rely on trade with 

11 the People’s Republic of China and other inputs 

12 from the People’s Republic of China (including 

13 active pharmaceutical ingredients, rare earth 

14 minerals, and metallurgical inputs), such that 

15 those sectors present a strategic vulnerability 

16 and source of leverage that the Chinese Com17 munist Party could exploit; and 

18 (B) makes recommendations to Congress 

19 on steps that can be taken to reduce the 

20 sources of leverage described in subparagraph 

21 (A) and subsection (a)(1), including through— 

22 (i) provision of economic incentives 

23 and making other trade and contracting 

24 reforms to support United States industry 

25 and job growth in critical sectors and to 


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1 indigenize production of critical resources; 

2 and 

3 (ii) policies to facilitate ‘‘near- or 

4 friend-shoring’’, or otherwise developing 

5 strategies to facilitate that process with al6 lies and partners of the United States, in 

7 other sectors for which domestic reshoring 

8 would prove infeasible for any reason. 

9 (c) FORM.—The reports required by subsections (a) 

10 and (b) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may 

11 include a classified annex. 

12 (d) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS DE13 FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate commit14 tees of Congress’’ means— 

15 (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 

16 Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee 

17 on Intelligence, the Committee on Finance, the Com18 mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, 

19 and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 

20 Transportation of the Senate; and 

21 (2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 

22 Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Fi23 nancial Services, the Committee on Energy and 


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1 Commerce, and the Permanent Select Committee on 

2 Intelligence of the House of Representatives. 

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