Benjamin L. Cardin: “If our priority is to shift to a different region, we may have to adjust resources in order to meet the current risks.”

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.

Which Russia is trying to make sure does not happen.

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.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.