The bill, for examples, labels China and Russia "revisionist powers and strategic competitors that seek to shape the world toward their authoritarian model through destabilizing activities that threaten the security of the United States and its allies."
The bill bears the fingerprints of Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican chairman of the Armed Services Committee, even though Mr. McCain has been absent from Washington for months as he battles brain cancer. Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, pushed the bill through the chamber and fought back several last-minute attempts to amend the legislation.
The bill would make major investments in research and development to compete with Russian and Chinese weapons developments. Specifically, it would send more than $600 million above the administration's budget request for programs in hypersonics, quantum computing, directed energy and other technologies.
It also sets policy for a dizzying array of programs and personnel matters, large and small, including a 2.6 percent pay raise for service members. It also outlines purchasing decisions on fighter jets, submarines, combat ships and other craft, and for the first time in decades, it outlines changes in the officer promotion program.
And at a time of deepening humanitarian crisis in Yemen, it also takes steps to potentially curtail the United States' involvement in aiding an Arab military coalition fighting in the long-running civil war there.
A provision written by senators Todd Young, Republican of Indiana, and Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire, threatens to cut off funds for American aerial refueling of Saudi and Emirati jets in the conflict if the secretary of state cannot certify that Saudi Arabia is taking certain steps to limit civilian casualties and bring the war to an end. Those steps include increasing access for Yemenis to food, fuel and medicine through the port of Hudaydah, which the Arab military coalition invaded last week.
The House passed its version of the bill, known as the N.D.A.A., late last month, without any of the trade provisions considered by the Senate. Representative Mac Thornberry of Texas, the Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, told reporters last week that he hopes to quickly reconcile differences in the two bills and finish the process before the House leaves for its August recess. He indicated that he would fight letting any provision, including the Senate's ZTE language, derail that process.
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