50 U.S.C. § 3735 — Limitation on availability of funds for Cooperative Threat Reduction activities in People’s Republic of China

(a) Semiannual installments. For Program^* activities in China, the Secretary of Defense must ensure Cooperative Threat Reduction funds^* are obligated in installments twice each year. (b)(1) Additional information. For those activities, the Secretary must send the section 3711(g) reports to the congressional defense committees^* twice yearly, no later than 15 days before any covered-period obligation. In coordination with the Secretary of State, each report must also say whether China took material steps to (A)(i) disrupt Li Fangwei's proliferation activities and (ii) arrest him under the April 29, 2014, Southern District of New York indictment; (B) whether China sent to any nonnuclear state, or to a nuclear state in violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, an item contributing to a ballistic-missile or nuclear-weapons delivery system; and (C) the number, type, and summary of United States-China demarches about (A) and (B). (2) The Secretary must simultaneously send this information to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (3) The first report after December 23, 2016, covers the preceding 12 months; each later report covers the preceding six months. (4) The information must be unclassified, but may have a classified annex.