SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Build Responsible In-
frastructure Development for the Global Economy Act’’ or 
the ‘‘BRIDGE Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) The Chinese government’s Belt and Road 
Initiative (BRI), enshrined in the CCP’s constitu-
tion, is a comprehensive, long-term economic devel-
opment strategy founded by General Secretary and 
President Xi Jinping to link regions worldwide 
through multi-billion infrastructure projects. The 
CCP utilizes the BRI’s informal framework as a ve-
hicle to establish a Sinocentric world order based on 
its authoritarian model of governance. 
(2) The BRI poses immediate and long-term 
risks to the national security, economic security, and 
international influence of the United States and our 
partners by giving the PRC the ability to project 
power more widely in geostrategic regions such as 
the Indo-Pacific. The BRI, covering countries rep-
resenting over half of the world’s population and 
over one-third of global economic output, seeks to 
pull nations into Beijing’s geopolitical orbit. 
(3) Despite the BRI’s well-documented scope 
and consequences, the United States government has 
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never formalized an official view or strategy to 
counter its efforts. This puts our national security 
objectives at a severe disadvantage as Beijing seeks 
to leverage its regional inroads worldwide through 
the BRI and other PRC-alternative institutions to 
achieve global preeminence. 
(4) The United States should not underestimate 
the significance of the BRI and establish a coherent, 
government-wide strategy that effectively seeks to 
counter Beijing’s economic and political scope and 
influence through the BRI. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States to counter efforts 
by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Chinese 
Communist Party (CCP) to create an integrated economic 
and political order under its leadership, which continues 
to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and econ-
omy of the United States 
(a) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Com-
merce, and the heads of other relevant Federal depart-
ments and agencies, shall submit to the appropriate con-
gressional committees a report that includes the following: 
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(1) Information relating to the scope of efforts 
by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Chi-
nese Communist Party (CCP) to utilize the Belt and 
Road Initiative (BRI) to undermine the United 
States-led international world order. 
(2) Information relating to the means and ob-
jectives of the PRC and the CCP in using the BRI 
as a vehicle to create a parallel order of alternative 
PRC-centric organizations. 
(3) An assessment of current United States 
Government tools and strategies to counter the BRI. 
(4) A detailed strategy regarding how the De-
partment of State, the United States Agency for 
International Development (USAID), and the De-
partment of Commerce intend to coordinate its re-
sources to counter the BRI. Such strategy shall in-
clude the following elements: 
(A) A description of interagency efforts to 
counter the BRI, together with recommenda-
tions on how to bolster the United States Gov-
ernment’s economic competition against China. 
(B) An assessment of past efforts by the 
United States Government to mitigate the ef-
fects of BRI, as well as the gaps in current 
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United States Government policy and imple-
mentation. 
(C) A timeline that holds the United 
States Government accountable in planning and 
executing such strategy. 
(D) A strategic roadmap that details how 
the United States Government will link such 
strategy to broader national security priorities 
and objectives, including the National Security 
Strategy and the National Defense Strategy. 
(E) A description that elaborates how the 
United States Government will align strategic 
planning and coordination with key allies and 
partners to effectively respond to the BRI, par-
ticularly in the Indo-Pacific. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.—Not later than one 
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Com-
merce, and the heads of other relevant Federal depart-
ments and agencies, shall submit to the appropriate con-
gressional committees a plan for implementing the strat-
egy described in subsection (a)(4), including the following: 
(1) A description of clearly defined program 
metrics, goals, targets, and planned outcomes for 
such strategy. 
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(2) A plan to monitor and evaluate such strat-
egy, and progress made toward achieving such goals, 
targets, and planned outcomes. 
(3) A plan to ensure such strategy is promoting 
United States foreign policy goals in the Indo-Pa-
cific by offering a positive vision for shared economic 
and infrastructure growth in a free and open inter-
national order. 
(c) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include 
a classified annex if necessary. The unclassified portion 
of such report shall be made available on a publicly avail-
able internet website of the Federal Government. 
(d) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEES 
DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-
gressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee 
on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives 
and 
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee 
on Finance of the Senate. 
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