; and (C) reduce the ability of such actors to influence global discourse. . 4. Active Measures Working Group for the Chinese Communist Party (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere , an April 22, 2013, notice from the Communist Party of China’s (CCP) Central Committee more commonly known as Document 9 , establishes that under the leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the CCP considers constitutional democracy, internationally recognized human rights, liberal economics, independent journalism, and internal dissent to be security threats. (2) In his remarks before the 19th Communist Party Congress in 2017, which were titled in part Strive for the Great Success of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era , General Secretary Xi Jinping said, the banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics is now flying high and proud for all to see. It means that the path, the theory, the system, and the culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics have kept developing, blazing a new trail for other developing countries to achieve modernization. It offers a new option for other countries and nations. . (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the CCP is hostile to United States values and seeks to advance an alternate set of authoritarian values, and therefore that the CCP and its ability to influence global discourse is a national security threat to the United States. (c) Reconstitution The Secretary of State shall reconstitute the Active Measures Working Group (in this section referred to as the Working Group ) for a period of five years. (d) Purpose The purpose of the Working Group shall be to create a regularly updated information statecraft strategy for the whole of the United States Government to reduce the ability of the CCP to influence global discourse. (e) Membership The Working Group shall include the following officials: (1) The Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy of the Department of State. (2) The Assistant