Senator Ted Budd said the Strategic Ports Reporting Act requires the development of a map of foreign and domestic ports of importance to the United States for military, diplomatic, economic, or resource exploration purposes and to identify efforts by China to build,

Asking American departmental defense leaders to monitor the purchasing and building efforts by the People’s Republic of China in strategic ports is the latest foreign policy legislation keyed by North Carolinians in the United States Senate.

Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.) joined forces with Senators Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Friday to introduce the Strategic Ports Reporting Act, a bipartisan push to counter the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) growing grip on global maritime networks.

() - Three U.S. senators, including Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly, have introduced a bill to monitor China's ports around the world. The Strategic Ports Reporting Act would require the U.S. secretaries of state and defense to develop a map to track efforts by the Chinese government to build,