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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2449 

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

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 30, 2023 

Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself and Mr. SCHNEIDER) introduced the 

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 

and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Ways and Means, 

and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined 

by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 

within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

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 2023’’. 

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 


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1 enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in con2 sultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of 

3 Commerce, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of 

4 the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, and the Direc5 tor of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, shall 

6 submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report 

7 that identifies— 

8 (1) goods and services from the United States 

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

10 such that that reliance presents a strategic oppor11 tunity and source of leverage against the People’s 

12 Republic of China; and 

13 (2) procurement practices of the United States 

14 Armed Forces and other Federal agencies that are 

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

16 and other inputs from the People’s Republic of 

17 China, such that that reliance presents a strategic 

18 vulnerability and source of leverage that the Chinese 

19 Communist Party could exploit. 

20 (b) STRATEGY TO RESPOND TO COERCIVE AC21 TION.— 

22 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 

23 after the submission of the report required by sub24 section (a), the Secretary of the Treasury, in con25 sultation with the Secretary of the Defense, the SecVerDate Sep 11 2014 22:08 Apr 12, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2449.IH H2449

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1 retary of Commerce, the Secretary of State, the Di2 rector of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, 

3 and the Director of the Office of Science and Tech4 nology Policy, shall submit to the appropriate com5 mittees of Congress a report, utilizing the findings 

6 of the report required by subsection (a), that de7 scribes a comprehensive sanctions strategy to advise 

8 policymakers on policies the United States and allies 

9 and partners of the United States could adopt with 

10 respect to the People’s Republic of China in re11 sponse to any coercive action, including an invasion, 

12 by the People’s Republic of China that infringes 

13 upon the territorial sovereignty of Taiwan by pre14 venting access to international waterways, airspace, 

15 or telecommunications networks. 

16 (2) ELEMENTS.—The strategy required by 

17 paragraph (1) shall include policies that— 

18 (A) restrict the access of the People’s Lib19 eration Army to oil, natural gas, munitions, and 

20 other supplies needed to conduct military oper21 ations against Taiwan, United States facilities 

22 in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and allies and 

23 partners of the United States in the region; 

24 (B) diminish the capacity of the industrial 

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1 ufacture and deliver defense articles to replace 

2 those lost in operations of the People’s Libera3 tion Army against Taiwan, the United States, 

4 and allies and partners of the United States; 

5 (C) inhibit the ability of the People’s Re6 public of China to evade United States and 

7 multilateral sanctions through third parties, in8 cluding through secondary sanctions; and 

9 (D) identify specific sanctions-related tools 

10 that may be effective in responding to coercive 

11 action described in paragraph (1) and assess 

12 the feasibility of the use and impact of the use 

13 of those tools. 

14 (c) RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REDUCTION OF

15 VULNERABILITIES AND LEVERAGE.—Not later than 180 

16 days after the submission of the report required by sub17 section (a), the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation 

18 the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the Di19 rector of National Intelligence, the United States Trade 

20 Representative, the Director of the Office of Federal Pro21 curement Policy, and the Director of the Office of Science 

22 and Technology Policy, shall submit to the appropriate 

23 committees of Congress a report that— 

24 (1) identifies critical sectors within the United 

25 States economy that rely on trade with the People’s 


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1 Republic of China and other inputs from the Peo2 ple’s Republic of China (including active pharma3 ceutical ingredients, rare earth minerals, and met4 allurgical inputs), such that those sectors present a 

5 strategic vulnerability and source of leverage that 

6 the Chinese Communist Party could exploit; and 

7 (2) makes recommendations to Congress on 

8 steps that can be taken to reduce the sources of le9 verage described in paragraph (1) and subsection 

10 (a)(1), including through— 

11 (A) provision of economic incentives and 

12 making other trade and contracting reforms to 

13 support United States industry and job growth 

14 in critical sectors and to indigenize production 

15 of critical resources; and 

16 (B) policies to facilitate ‘‘near- or friend17 shoring’’, or otherwise developing strategies to 

18 facilitate that process with allies and partners 

19 of the United States, in other sectors for which 

20 domestic reshoring would prove infeasible for 

21 any reason. 

22 (d) FORM.—The reports required by subsections (a), 

23 (b), and (c) shall be submitted in unclassified form but 

24 may include a classified annex. 


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1 (e) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS DE2 FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate commit3 tees of Congress’’ means— 

4 (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 

5 Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee 

6 on Intelligence, the Committee on Finance, the Com7 mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, 

8 and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 

9 Transportation of the Senate; and 

10 (2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 

11 Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Fi12 nancial Services, the Committee on Energy and 

13 Commerce, and the Permanent Select Committee on 

14 Intelligence of the House of Representatives. 

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