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Introduced May 13, 2025 by Christopher A. Coons · Last progress May 13, 2025
This bill improves U.S. intelligence, interagency coordination, and alliance-driven options to deter PRC overseas basing—strengthening national security and partner engagement—while likely increasing federal costs, risking heightened geopolitical tensions, and reducing transparency and some international collaboration.
Military personnel, federal policymakers, and allied partners receive timely, clearer intelligence and coordinated strategy (classified DNI assessment, interagency task force, identification of high‑risk locations, quadrennial reviews) to better protect U.S. and allied power projection and freedom of movement versus PRC overseas basing.
U.S. policymakers and diplomats gain documented justification and mechanisms to strengthen alliances and port‑security cooperation, improving the legitimacy and effectiveness of deterrence and diplomatic engagement with partner countries.
A whole‑of‑government approach with dedicated structures and sustained resourcing increases the stability and targeting of partner engagement and capacity‑building (security and foreign assistance), which can improve partner readiness and port/security cooperation.
Taxpayers are likely to face higher federal costs due to new or expanded defense spending, foreign assistance, task force staffing, and other implementation expenses required by the strategy.
Emphasizing counter‑basing and publicizing PRC basing concerns risks heightening geopolitical tensions with the PRC, which could provoke diplomatic or economic retaliation that affects trade and host‑country relations.
Implementing the strategy may redirect diplomatic and defense resources from other priorities (opportunity costs), reducing attention and funding for other foreign‑policy or defense programs.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Requires the intelligence community and the State Department (with Defense and other agencies) to produce a classified assessment and a public strategy to identify, prioritize, and counter potential overseas military basing by the People’s Republic of China. It mandates an interagency implementation task force, sets deadlines for reports and task‑force creation, and requires periodic strategy reviews to guide U.S. efforts to prevent or mitigate PRC global basing risks.