(1) Standards serve as the building blocks for 
product development and help ensure functionality, 
interoperability, and safety. 
(2) Global cooperation and coordination on 
standards for emerging technologies will be critical 
for having a consistent set of rules to enable market 
competition, preclude barriers to trade, and allow in-
novation to flourish. 
(3) China’s ‘‘Standardization Reform Plan’’ 
and ‘‘Five-Year Plan for Standardization’’ highlight 
its high-level goals to establish China as a ‘‘stand-
ards power’’ by 2020, participate in at least half of 
all standards drafting and revision efforts in recog-
nized international standards setting organizations, 
and to strengthen China’s participation in the gov-
ernance of international standards setting organiza-
tions. 
(4) As emerging technologies develop for global 
deployment, it is critical that the United States and 
its allies continue to shape standards that underpin 
the technologies themselves, and the future inter-
national governance of these technologies. 
(5) United States position on standardization in 
emerging technologies will be critical to United 
States economic competitiveness. 
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(6) NIST is in a unique position to strengthen 
United States leadership in standards development, 
particularly for emerging technologies, to ensure 
continuing United States economic competitiveness 
and national security. 
SEC. 3. EXTERNAL STUDY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Na-
tional Institute of Standards and Technology shall enter 
into an agreement with the National Academies of 
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a study, 
and make recommendations with respect to the impact of 
Chinese government policies and standards development 
on international bodies engaged in developing and setting 
international standards for emerging technologies. The 
study may include— 
(1) an assessment of how China’s role in inter-
national standards setting organizations has grown 
over the previous 10 years, including in leadership 
roles in standards-drafting technical committees, and 
the quality or value of that participation; 
(2) an assessment of the impact of China’s 
standardization strategy, as identified in the ‘‘Chi-
nese Standard 2035’’ on international bodies en-
gaged in developing and setting standards for select 
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emerging technologies, such as advanced commu-
nication technologies or cloud computing and cloud 
services; 
(3) an examination of whether international 
standards for select emerging technologies are being 
designed to promote Chinese government interests 
that are expressed in the ‘‘Made in China 2025’’ 
plan to the exclusion of other participants; 
(4) an examination of how the previous prac-
tices China has utilized while participating in inter-
national standards setting organizations may foretell 
how China will engage in international standardiza-
tion activities of critical technologies like artificial 
intelligence and quantum information science, and 
what may be the consequences; 
(5) recommendations on how the United States 
can take steps to mitigate Chinese influence in inter-
national standards-setting bodies and identify voting 
strategies with respect to international consensus 
standards for advanced wireless communications 
technologies and other critical technologies; and 
(6) any other areas the Academies believe is im-
portant to address. 
(b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The agreement entered 
into under subsection (a) shall require the National Acad-
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emies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to, not later 
than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act— 
(1) submit to the Committee on Science, Space, 
and Technology of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Trans-
portation of the Senate a report containing the find-
ings and recommendations of the review conducted 
under subsection (a); and 
(2) make a copy of such report available on a 
publicly accessible website. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Director to carry 
out this section $1,000,000 for fiscal year 2020. 
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