1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Build Responsible Infrastructure Development for the Global Economy Act or the BRIDGE Act . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The Chinese government’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), enshrined in the CCP’s constitution, is a comprehensive, long-term economic development strategy founded by General Secretary and President Xi Jinping to link regions worldwide through multi-billion infrastructure projects. The CCP utilizes the BRI’s informal framework as a vehicle to establish a Sinocentric world order based on its authoritarian model of governance. (2) The BRI poses immediate and long-term risks to the national security, economic security, and international influence of the United States and our partners by giving the PRC the ability to project power more widely in geostrategic regions such as the Indo-Pacific. The BRI, covering countries representing over half of the world’s population and over one-third of global economic output, seeks to pull nations into Beijing’s geopolitical orbit. (3) Despite the BRI’s well-documented scope and consequences, the United States Government has never formalized an official view or strategy to counter its efforts. This puts our national security objectives at a severe disadvantage as Beijing seeks to leverage its regional inroads worldwide through the BRI and other PRC-alternative institutions to achieve global preeminence. (4) The United States should not underestimate the significance of the BRI and establish a coherent, government-wide strategy that effectively seeks to counter Beijing’s economic and political scope and influence through the BRI. 3. Statement of policy It is the policy of the United States to counter efforts by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to create an integrated economic and political order under its leadership, which continues to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States (a) Reporting requirement Not later