Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday vowed to ramp up pressure on China on multiple fronts, calling Beijing “truly hostile” to the United States.

In the latest hawkish take on China by President Donald Trump’s administration, Pompeo said he would deliver a series of speeches in coming months laying out cases against Beijing on areas from ideology to trade to its efforts for influence within the United States.

Pompeo highlighted China’s clampdown on Hong Kong protests and incarceration of Uighur Muslims and said Beijing was seeking international domination–implicitly rejecting US experts who argued that the communist leaders are fundamentally pragmatic.

“The Chinese Communist Party is offering its people and the world an entirely different model of governance it’s one in which a Leninist party rules and everyone must think and act according to the will of the Communist elites,” he said.

At a dinner attended by Henry Kissinger, the apostle of realpolitik who negotiated US normalisation of ties with Beijing, Pompeo said Washington had long been too easy on China in hopes that it would transform.

“We hesitated and did far less than we should have when China threatened its neighbours like Vietnam and the Philippines and when they claimed the entire South China Sea,” he said.