; and (2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate. (c) Policy Guidance, Coordination, and Approval (1) Coordinator The Secretary of State shall designate a senior official of the Department at the rank of Assistant Secretary or above to provide policy guidance, coordination, and approval for the obligation of funds authorized pursuant to subsection (a). (2) Duties The senior official designated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be responsible for the coordination and approval of all programming conducted using the funds authorized to be appropriated by subsection (a), based on a determination that such programming counters the malign influence and activities of the Chinese Communist Party pursuant to the strategic objectives of the United States, as established in the 2017 National Security Strategy, the 2018 National Defense Strategy, and other relevant national and regional strategies as appropriate. (3) Interagency coordination The senior official designated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall, in coordinating and approving programming pursuant to paragraph (2), seek to— (A) conduct appropriate interagency consultation; and (B) ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that all approved programming functions in concert with other Federal activities to counter the malign influence and activities of the Chinese Communist Party. (4) Assistant coordinator The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development shall designate a senior official at the rank of Assistant Administrator or above to assist and consult the senior official designated pursuant to paragraph (1). (d) Malign influence In this section, the term malign influence with respect to the Chinese Communist Party should be construed to include acts conducted by the Chinese Communist Party or entities acting on its behalf that— (1) undermine a free and open international order