The bill addresses competition with China through efforts such as increasing international development funding...It pushes humanitarian and democratic values, like imposing sanctions over the treatment of the Muslim Uighurs and supporting democracy in HK. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-lawmakers-look-advance-sweeping-bid-counter-china-2021-04-21/

The committee added dozens of amendments to the bill. One would force a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics by U.S. officials, not athletes, which was also recommended by the U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom

Menendez: “With the Strategic Competition Act becomes the first of what we hope will be a cascade of legislative activity for our nation to finally meet the China challenge across every dimension of power, political, diplomatic, economic, innovation, military and even cultural,"

This is an older version of the bill, but I think this is still in here. $300 million a year (!) to counter CCP influence. $300 million. Every year. To spend on info ops! https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/DAV21598%20-%20Strategic%20Competition%20Act%20of%202021.pdf

I mean, who at @StateDept is going to get the job of spending this $300 million...every year...to counter Chinese influence. And where do I apply for grants?

US Agency for Global Media (Includes Radio Free Asia, Voice of America) gets an additional $100 million a year to combat Chinese disinformation “inside and outside of China.”

Whoa! @StateDept is going to “train” journalists? What?

I like this affirmation of US treaty defense commitments, but am a bit curious as to why Japan is first and Australia is last. Also, interesting that New Zealand gets relegated to “regional partnership” along with India, Taiwan, and ASEAN.

Not sure this is constitutional but OK. And I guess we are going with “Taiwan government” instead of ROC these days? I’m good with that as well.

Canada gets its own subsection!