Benjamin L. Cardin: “Part of that was training, that we felt that we needed to up our game on training.”

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.

Senator Cardin, I thank you for your leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

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.