; (2) the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate ; (3) the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate ; (4) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives ; (5) the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives ; and (6) the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives . 202. Addressing the risks that pervasive surveillance and monitoring technologies pose to human rights (a) Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) According to a 2018 report by Freedom House— (A) China has stepped up efforts to use digital media to increase its own power, both inside and outside of China; (B) in 2018, for the second year in a row, China was the worst abuser of internet freedom, and during that year, the Government of China hosted media officials from dozens of countries for 2- and 3-week seminars on its sprawling system of censorship and surveillance; (C) Chinese companies have supplied telecommunications hardware, advanced facial-recognition technology, and data analytics tools to a variety of governments with poor human rights records, which could benefit Chinese intelligence services and repressive local authorities; and (D) China’s Belt and Road Initiative includes a Digital Silk Road of Chinese-built fiber-optic networks that could expose internet traffic to greater monitoring by local and Chinese intelligence agencies, given that China is determined to set the technical standards for how the next generation of traffic is coded and transmitted. (2) As part of its engagement with Latin American and Caribbean governments, China has begun promoting the installation of pervasive surveillance camera systems, under the pretext of citizen security, in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, to be financed, designed, installed, and maintained by companies linked to the Government of China. (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) China is exporting its model for internal security and state control of society through advanced technology and artificial intelligence