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within the Hong Kong Special Administrative Re-
gion, including— 
‘‘(A) a list of the key companies that pro-
vide such technologies; and 
‘‘(B) an assessment of the degree to which 
such technologies can be accessed by Chinese 
security services operating within the Hong 
Kong Special Administrative Region. 
‘‘(c) COORDINATION.—In carrying out subsection (a), 
the Director shall coordinate with the Director of the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency, the Director of the National Se-
curity Agency, the Director of the Defense Intelligence 
Agency, the Director of the National Geospatial-Intel-
ligence Agency, the Assistant Secretary of State for the 
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and any other rel-
evant head of an element of the intelligence community. 
‘‘(d) FORM.—Each report submitted to the appro-
priate congressional committees under subsection (a) shall 
be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a clas-
sified annex. 
‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’ means— 
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‘‘(A) the congressional intelligence commit-
tees; 
‘‘(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
and the Committee on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives; and 
‘‘(C) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Armed Services of the 
Senate. 
‘‘(2) CHINESE SECURITY SERVICES.—The term 
‘Chinese security services’ means— 
‘‘(A) the security services of the Govern-
ment of the People’s Republic of China, includ-
ing the Ministry of State Security and the Min-
istry of Public Security; and 
‘‘(B) any known front organizations or 
aliases associated with such security services, 
including officers associated with the national 
security division of the Hong Kong Police Force 
and other officers of the Hong Kong Police 
Force selected by the Committee for Safe-
guarding National Security to work on matters 
relating to national security.’’. 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in the first section of the National Security Act of 1947 
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is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
1107 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 1107A. Annual reports on security services of the People’s Republic of 
China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.’’. 
SEC. 812. RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP ON ACTIVITIES OF 
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. 
(a) RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP.— 
(1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Di-
rector of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency 
shall seek to enter into a partnership with an aca-
demic or non-profit research institution to— 
(A) carry out joint unclassified geospatial 
intelligence analyses of the activities of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China that pose risks to the 
national security interests of the United States; 
and 
(B) make available on a publicly available 
internet website unclassified geospatial intel-
ligence products relating to such analyses. 
(2) ELEMENTS.—The Director shall ensure 
that the activities of China analyzed under para-
graph (1)(A) include the following: 
(A) Any notable developments relating to 
the global activities of the People’s Liberation 
Army Ground Force, the People’s Liberation 
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Army Navy, the People’s Liberation Army Air 
Force, the People’s Liberation Army Rocket 
Force, the People’s Liberation Army Strategic 
Support Force, and the Chinese People’s Armed 
Police Force Coast Guard Corps. 
(B) Infrastructure projects associated with 
the ‘‘One Belt, One Road’’ Initiative. 
(C) Maritime land reclamation activities 
conducted by China in the South China Sea, 
the Indian Ocean region, and the broader mari-
time commons. 
(D) Matters relevant to global public 
health and climate security, including— 
(i) indications and warnings of disease 
outbreaks with pandemic potential; 
(ii) the activities of China likely con-
tributing to climate change; and 
(iii) any environmental degradation 
directly resulting from the practices of 
China. 
(3) CONSORTIUM.—In carrying out paragraph 
(1), the Director may enter into a partnership 
with— 
(A) one research institution; or 
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(B) a consortium of research institutions if 
the Director determines that the inclusion of 
multiple institutions will result in more effective 
research conducted pursuant to this section or 
improve the outcomes of such research. 
(4) DURATION.—The Director shall carry out a 
partnership under this section for a period that is 
not less than 10 years following the date of the en-
actment of this Act. 
(5) IMPROVEMENTS
TO
PARTNERSHIP.—The 
Director may modify the partnership under para-
graph (1) or select a new research institution with 
which to enter into such a partnership if— 
(A) the Director consults with the congres-
sional intelligence committees with respect to 
the proposed modified or new partnership; 
(B) the modified or new partnership is car-
ried out in accordance with this section; and 
(C) the Director determines that the modi-
fied or new partnership will result in more ef-
fective research conducted pursuant to this sec-
tion or improve the outcomes of such research. 
(b) OPEN-SOURCE DATA.— 
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(1) IDENTIFICATION AND PUBLICATION.—Dur-
ing the life of the partnership under subsection (a), 
the Director shall regularly— 
(A) identify raw, unclassified geospatial 
data that could improve the research conducted 
under the partnership if the data was made 
publicly available; and 
(B) make such data publicly available. 
(2) CONSULTATION.—The Director shall carry 
out paragraph (1) in consultation with the research 
institution or consortium of research institutions in-
volved with the partnership under subsection (a). 
(c) BRIEFINGS.—Not later than 270 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter 
during the life of the partnership under subsection (a), 
the Director shall provide to the appropriate congressional 
committees a briefing on the partnership. Each such brief-
ing shall include the following: 
(1) The outcomes of research conducted under 
the partnership. 
(2) Identification of the actions that have been 
taken to increase the quantity and quality of unclas-
sified geospatial analysis products made publicly 
available under the partnership, including the quan-
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