Ben Cardin: “This is, certainly, a critically important subject when we talk about strategic competition with China.”

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.

It was originally a piece of legislation targeting the people who killed Sergei Magnitsky.

We are going to do something about this.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.