Benjamin L. Cardin: “It has been 28 years since the Dayton Accords, and the structure there was to end the conflict.”

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.

That is why virtually every international aid organization that has operated worldwide for decades says they have never experienced a worse manmade humanitarian disaster than that in Gaza.

What you have done to strengthen the transatlantic partnership is incredible.

To be true to our founding principles we need to support those people trying to defend human rights, those rights endowed to us by our Creator.