Benjamin L. Cardin: “We are seeing the growth of a new weapon that is being used against our democratic institutions, and it is called…”

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.

I support that, but whether we will ever get to that point, my concern is it is going to be years down the road, and we are going to have another Moldova and another Georgia.

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

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.