; (B) providing technical assistance to support the Government of the DRC’s efforts to improve the business climate of the DRC; and (C) ensuring sufficient staffing of the United States Embassy in Kinshasa to support the critical minerals portfolio, including by establishing a permanent presence of Foreign Commercial Service Officers to provide commercial services and export assistance to United States companies seeking to do business in the DRC. (c) Form The strategy required under subsection (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form and may include a classified annex. (d) Updates Not later than 3 years after the submission of the initial strategy required by subsection (a), and every 3 years thereafter for 12 years, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that includes— (1) an update of the strategy submitted pursuant to subsection (a); and (2) an assessment of the effectiveness of such strategy, as of the date of the submission of the update. 7. Definitions In this Act: (1) Appropriate congressional committees The term appropriate congressional committees means— (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Financial Services, and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives; and (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate. (2) Armed group The term armed group means an armed state or non-state actor that is identified as a perpetrator of serious human rights abuses in the Department of State’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. (3) Critical mineral The term critical mineral has the meaning given that term in section 7002(a) of the Energy Act of 2020 ( 30 U.S.C. 1606(a) ). (4) Prc-linked entity The term PRC-linked entity means a foreign entity that— (A) is subject to the jurisdiction or direction of the PRC; (B) is legally registered or internationally headquartered in the PRC