SEC. 4. REPORT ON MALIGN INFLUENCE AT THE INTER-
NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 
develop and submit to the Committees on Foreign Affairs 
and Energy and Commerce of the House of Representa-
tives and the Committees on Foreign Relations and Com-
merce, Science, and Transportation the Senate a report 
on Russian and Chinese strategies and efforts— 
(1) to expand the mandate of the International 
Telecommunication Union (ITU) to cover internet 
governance policy; and 
(2) to advance other actions favorable to au-
thoritarian interests and/or hostile to fair, industry- 
led processes. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The report required by subsection 
(a) shall also identify efforts by China and Russia— 
(1) to increase the ITU’s jurisdiction over inter-
net governance and to propose internet governance 
standards at the ITU; 
(2) to leverage their private sector actors to ad-
vance their national interests through the ITU, in-
cluding— 
(A) encouraging Chinese and Russian com-
panies to leverage their market power to pres-
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sure other member countries to deliver favor-
able decisions on ITU elections; and 
(B) China’s efforts to leverage Huawei’s 
role as the primary telecommunications equip-
ment and services provider for many developing 
countries to compel such countries to deliver fa-
vorable decisions on standards proposals, elec-
tion victories, candidate selection, and other le-
vers of power at the ITU; and 
(3) to use the influence of Chinese and Russian 
nationals serving in the ITU to advantage the com-
panies, standards decisions, and candidates that ad-
vance the CCP and Kremlin’s interests. 
(c) FORM.—The report required by this section shall 
be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a clas-
sified annex. 
SEC. 5. REPORT ON MULTILATERAL COORDINATION. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in coordination 
with the President of the Export-Import Bank of the 
United States, the Administrator for the United States 
Agency on International Development, the Chief Executive 
Officer of the Development Finance Corporation, the 
Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, and 
the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications 
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and Information, shall develop and submit to the Commit-
tees on Foreign Affairs and Energy and Commerce and 
of the House of Representatives and the Committees For-
eign Relations and on Commerce, Science, and Transpor-
tation and of the Senate a report that identifies opportuni-
ties for greater collaboration with allies and partners to 
promote secure information and communications tech-
nology infrastructure in countries other than the United 
States, including through— 
(1) joint financing efforts to help trusted ven-
dors win bids to build out information and commu-
nications technology (ICT) infrastructure; 
(2) incorporating ICT focuses into allies’ and 
partners’ international development finance initia-
tives; and 
(3) diplomatic coordination to emphasize the 
importance of secure telecommunications infrastruc-
ture to countries using untrusted providers. 
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