Rubio targets MSCI’s indexes as he ratchets up China warnings

Three days after calling for an HHS probe into CMS genetic testing payments to Chinese-linked companies, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has requested information from MSCI regarding its inclusion of Chinese companies in its equity indexes.

In a letter to the company Thursday, Rubio asked MSCI Inc. (New York, N.Y.) to provide the inclusion criteria for its indexes and questioned whether the company investigated any ties that Chinese companies in its indexes might have with the Chinese government and Communist Party, the country’s military, intelligence and surveillance services, as well as any involvement in the government’s “systemic and egregious human rights abuses” and Made in China 2025 policy...