Benjamin L. Cardin: “The Biden administration's response was pragmatic, it was resolute, and given the loss of American life it was entirely…”

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.

The use of defamation laws, foreign agent registration laws, and anti-NGO laws to silence free speech is nothing new.

I appreciate that, and I support everything you just said...

Nowhere has this been more on display than what has occurred in Hong Kong in recent years as the passage of the National Security Law and entry into force of Article 23 destroyed what remains of Hong Kong's democracy.