Benjamin L. Cardin: “It is a crime against and a war on food security.”

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

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.

I appreciate that, and I support everything you just said...

The use of defamation laws, foreign agent registration laws, and anti-NGO laws to silence free speech is nothing new.