“The Chinese Communist Party is an evil regime.

… They are running concentration camps in Northwestern China, and they are persecuting Christians throughout their region, and they have long forced abortions on women or sterilization on women,” Cotton said in an interview Monday with Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow.

The NBA has been particularly careful about not wanting to offend the Chinese Communist Party, since China is a profitable market for the NBA.

He said the Trump administration currently has two carrier groups in the South China Sea to demonstrate American resolve as China conducts naval exercises in the disputed body of water.

He said he expects to see more legislation from the Senate to hold China accountable.

He said the Senate is considering amending the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act to allow American citizens to hold Chinese officials accountable inside or in American courts and has legislation that would help  bring back critical supply chains and critical pharmaceuticals, medical goods, and medical equipment currently made in China.