Marco Rubio actually said...

the political considerations are not used in the TIP process to distort the tier rankings.

foreign governments tend to focus their anti-trafficking efforts on sex trafficking, which is horrifying, but there is also the issue of lab...

Let me just highlight one more thing that I am hearing from NGOs with regards to China.

there are some countries, where, because of certain geopolitical issues, there might be some internal pressure not to downgrade them.