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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2449 
To require a strategy for countering the People’s Republic of China. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 30, 2023 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself and Mr. SCHNEIDER) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Ways and Means, 
and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined 
by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require a strategy for countering the People’s Republic 
of China. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Taiwan Protection and 
National Resilience Act of 2023’’. 
SEC. 2. STRATEGY FOR COUNTERING THE PEOPLE’S RE-
PUBLIC OF CHINA. 
(a) IDENTIFICATION OF VULNERABILITIES AND LE-
VERAGE.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
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enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of 
Commerce, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of 
the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, and the Direc-
tor of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, shall 
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report 
that identifies— 
(1) goods and services from the United States 
that are relied on by the People’s Republic of China 
such that that reliance presents a strategic oppor-
tunity and source of leverage against the People’s 
Republic of China; and 
(2) procurement practices of the United States 
Armed Forces and other Federal agencies that are 
reliant on trade with the People’s Republic of China 
and other inputs from the People’s Republic of 
China, such that that reliance presents a strategic 
vulnerability and source of leverage that the Chinese 
Communist Party could exploit. 
(b) STRATEGY TO RESPOND
TO COERCIVE AC-
TION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the submission of the report required by sub-
section (a), the Secretary of the Treasury, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of the Defense, the Sec-
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retary of Commerce, the Secretary of State, the Di-
rector of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, 
and the Director of the Office of Science and Tech-
nology Policy, shall submit to the appropriate com-
mittees of Congress a report, utilizing the findings 
of the report required by subsection (a), that de-
scribes a comprehensive sanctions strategy to advise 
policymakers on policies the United States and allies 
and partners of the United States could adopt with 
respect to the People’s Republic of China in re-
sponse to any coercive action, including an invasion, 
by the People’s Republic of China that infringes 
upon the territorial sovereignty of Taiwan by pre-
venting access to international waterways, airspace, 
or telecommunications networks. 
(2) ELEMENTS.—The strategy required by 
paragraph (1) shall include policies that— 
(A) restrict the access of the People’s Lib-
eration Army to oil, natural gas, munitions, and 
other supplies needed to conduct military oper-
ations against Taiwan, United States facilities 
in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and allies and 
partners of the United States in the region; 
(B) diminish the capacity of the industrial 
base of the People’s Republic of China to man-
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ufacture and deliver defense articles to replace 
those lost in operations of the People’s Libera-
tion Army against Taiwan, the United States, 
and allies and partners of the United States; 
(C) inhibit the ability of the People’s Re-
public of China to evade United States and 
multilateral sanctions through third parties, in-
cluding through secondary sanctions; and 
(D) identify specific sanctions-related tools 
that may be effective in responding to coercive 
action described in paragraph (1) and assess 
the feasibility of the use and impact of the use 
of those tools. 
(c) 
RECOMMENDATIONS
FOR
REDUCTION
OF 
VULNERABILITIES AND LEVERAGE.—Not later than 180 
days after the submission of the report required by sub-
section (a), the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation 
the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the Di-
rector of National Intelligence, the United States Trade 
Representative, the Director of the Office of Federal Pro-
curement Policy, and the Director of the Office of Science 
and Technology Policy, shall submit to the appropriate 
committees of Congress a report that— 
(1) identifies critical sectors within the United 
States economy that rely on trade with the People’s 
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Republic of China and other inputs from the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China (including active pharma-
ceutical ingredients, rare earth minerals, and met-
allurgical inputs), such that those sectors present a 
strategic vulnerability and source of leverage that 
the Chinese Communist Party could exploit; and 
(2) makes recommendations to Congress on 
steps that can be taken to reduce the sources of le-
verage described in paragraph (1) and subsection 
(a)(1), including through— 
(A) provision of economic incentives and 
making other trade and contracting reforms to 
support United States industry and job growth 
in critical sectors and to indigenize production 
of critical resources; and 
(B) policies to facilitate ‘‘near- or friend- 
shoring’’, or otherwise developing strategies to 
facilitate that process with allies and partners 
of the United States, in other sectors for which 
domestic reshoring would prove infeasible for 
any reason. 
(d) FORM.—The reports required by subsections (a), 
(b), and (c) shall be submitted in unclassified form but 
may include a classified annex. 
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(e) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate commit-
tees of Congress’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee 
on Intelligence, the Committee on Finance, the Com-
mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, 
and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation of the Senate; and 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Fi-
nancial Services, the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce, and the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence of the House of Representatives. 
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