---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3735"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3735"
heading: "Limitation on availability of funds for Cooperative Threat Reduction activities in People’s Republic of China"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3735"
units:
  - "Chapter 48 — Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction"
  - "Subchapter II — Restrictions and Limitations"
---

# §3735. Limitation on availability of funds for Cooperative Threat Reduction activities in People’s Republic of China

- (a) **Semiannual installments—** In carrying out activities under the [Program](/usc/50/3701.md?p=3) in the People’s Republic of China, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure that [Cooperative Threat Reduction funds](/usc/50/3701.md?p=2) for such activities are obligated in semiannual installments.
- (b) **Required reports—**
  - (1) **Additional information—** With respect to carrying out activities under the [Program](/usc/50/3701.md?p=3) in the People’s Republic of China, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the [congressional defense committees](/usc/50/3701.md?p=1) the reports required by [section 3711(g) of this title](/usc/50/3711.md?p=g) on a semiannual basis by not later than 15 days before any obligation of [Cooperative Threat Reduction funds](/usc/50/3701.md?p=2) for such activities during the covered semiannual period. In addition to the matters required by such section, each such report shall include, in coordination with the Secretary of State—
    - (A) whether China has taken material steps to—
      - (i) disrupt the proliferation activities of Li Fangwei (also known as Karl Lee, or any other alias known by the United States); and
      - (ii) arrest Li Fangwei pursuant the indictment charged in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on April 29, 2014;
    - (B) whether China has proliferated to any non-nuclear weapons state, or any nuclear weapons state in violation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, any item that contributes to a ballistic missile or nuclear weapons delivery system; and
    - (C) the number, type, and summary of any demarches between the United States and China with respect to the matters described in subparagraphs [(A)](#b-1-A) and [(B)](#b-1-B).
  - (2) **Additional submissions—** At the same time as the Secretary of Defense submits to the [congressional defense committees](/usc/50/3701.md?p=1) the information described in subparagraphs [(A)](#b-1-A), [(B)](#b-1-B), and [(C)](#b-1-C) of paragraph (1) as part of the reports required by [section 3711(g) of this title](/usc/50/3711.md?p=g), the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate such information.
  - (3) **Coverage—** With respect to the information described in subparagraphs [(A)](#b-1-A), [(B)](#b-1-B), and [(C)](#b-1-C) of paragraph (1)—
    - (A) the first report described in such paragraph that is submitted after December 23, 2016, shall cover the preceding 12-month period before the date of such submission; and
    - (B) each subsequent report shall cover the semiannual period preceding the date of such submission.
  - (4) **Form—** The information described in subparagraphs [(A)](#b-1-A), [(B)](#b-1-B), and [(C)](#b-1-C) of paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–291, div. A, title XIII, § 1335, as added Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title XIII, § 1303(a), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2567; amended Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title XIII, § 1302(b)(3), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1705.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2017—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–91 struck out “or expended” after “obligated”.