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118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8683 
To require the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State to monitor 
efforts by the People’s Republic of China to build or buy strategic 
foreign ports, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 11, 2024 
Mr. HUIZENGA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Finan-
cial Services, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 
State to monitor efforts by the People’s Republic of 
China to build or buy strategic foreign ports, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. MAPPING AND STRATEGY REQUIRED. 
(a) MAPPING.—The Secretary of Defense and the 
Secretary of State shall jointly develop and maintain an 
updated global mapping of strategic ports identified to be 
of importance to the United States, because of a capability 
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to provide military, diplomatic, economic, trade, or re-
source exploration superiority, and any efforts by the Gov-
ernment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to build 
or buy such ports. 
(b) STRATEGY.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
and the Secretary of State shall jointly submit to Congress 
a strategy to counter the efforts by the PRC described 
in subsection (a) and ensure that the strategic ports 
mapped pursuant to such subsection are built, owned, con-
trolled, and managed by the United States or by govern-
ments friendly to the United States. Such strategy shall 
also include the following— 
(1) An identification of the commercial, mili-
tary, and dual-use capabilities of ports owned, con-
structed, or operated by Chinese entities. 
(2) An identification of potential military capa-
bilities, including physical limitations and construc-
tion specifications such as berth, in number and 
length, draft, deep-water level, availability of trans-
portation networks and fueling stations, and quay. 
(3) An identification and analysis of ongoing 
PRC port projects, suspended projects, and canceled 
projects. 
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(4) An identification and analysis of non-PRC- 
owned or -operated ports that use PRC-manufac-
tured, critical port infrastructure. 
(5) An identification and analysis of non-PRC- 
owned or -operated ports that have been the victims 
of cyber attacks originating inside or by the direc-
tion of the PRC. 
(c) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It shall be the policy 
of each relevant Federal department and agency to— 
(1) identify and encourage ways in which col-
laboration between various development finance op-
tions, such as the Export-Import Bank, the United 
States International Development Finance Corpora-
tion, the United States Agency for International De-
velopment, and others, can be used to thwart Chi-
nese investment in— 
(A) strategic ports; 
(B) countries that have currently have 
strategic ports; or 
(C) countries that have the capability of 
hosting strategic ports; and 
(2) report to Congress on efforts and progress 
made in such collaboration and in successfully 
thwarting such investments. 
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