House Foreign Affairs chairman Michael McCaul (R., Texas) criticized various aspects of President Joe Biden’s foreign policy Sunday, explaining that the “shameful” Afghanistan withdrawal enabled China’s increasing aggression and that recent moves from the administration show no appetite to rein China in.

Secretary of state Antony Blinken recently visited Beijing and according to McCaul, had to make major concessions just to get in the door, including the approval of export licenses to Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE as well as the non-enforcement of sanctions targeting human rights abuses. “This is now how you conduct diplomacy, negotiations,” explained McCaul on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures.

McCaul, who led a delegation to Taiwan, the island nation China is becoming increasingly aggressive towards, also had harsh words for Blinken’s rhetorical concession against Taiwan independence. “That’s not consistent with the Taiwan Relations Act. He didn’t have to say that,” explained McCaul. “And I can’t tell you what a blow that is to the people of Taiwan for a secretary of state to say we don’t support your independence.”

The chairman linked the Afghanistan withdrawal to China’s increasing soft-power successes and its growing belligerence towards Taiwan. According to McCaul, China has been able to manipulate global institutions that the American taxpayer is funding.

China is a developing nation under the U.N. charter and qualifies for interest free loans or low interest loans from the World Bank. “In other words, the World Bank is funding [China’s] Road and Belt initiative. There are projects in 151 countries across the world to do infrastructure projects. What they do is they take the money, charge usurious interest rates to the developing nation, and then get them in a debt trap, bring their own workers in [and extract] rare earth minerals,” explained McCaul, adding that China controls 85 percent of the rare earth minerals globally.

This also enables China to establish ports and military bases throughout the world, McCaul said. “They’re in Afghanistan right now and imagine that outcome in Afghanistan. They get a trillion dollars of lithium and then access to Bagram air base. That would be the end of the Afghan conflict after 20 years by the Biden administration. Shameful,” he added. “That’s what started the aggression from Putin, and chairman Xi in the Pacific with Taiwan.”

According to the chairman, the U.S. had capable Intelligence, Surveillance, and Recognizance (ISR) in that part of the globe because of its position in Afghanistan. “We lost all of that. We can’t see Russia, China, and Iran anymore from that part of the world,” McCaul explained.

“For god’s sake, to abandon that, when you see the Chinese come in, it’s the biggest slap in the face to the veterans,” McCaul added.

The chairman said he recently visited the retirement ceremony of an Abbey gate sniper who was catastrophically injured during the Kabul Airport bombing. The sniper was not given permission to engage a person he thought was the suicide bomber prior to the attack. McCaul and his colleagues are currently investigating the Pentagon for this chain of events.

McCaul noted that 13 seats were left empty at the ceremony for the 13 servicemembers who died.

While Biden called Chinese president Xi Jinping a “dictator” last week, McCaul urged the administration to stop making concessions and act, especially against provocations on America’s doorstep.

McCaul pointed to reports that China has established eavesdropping operations in Cuba and is in talks to establish a military facility. In Florida, said the chairman, just 90 miles from the northern coast of Cuba, there is a U.S. Central Command presence, among other things.

Huawei and ZTE are involved in this, suggested the chairman, once again expressing outrage at the recent licenses approved by the U.S. According to McCaul, the administration adopted a more hawkish position right after the Chinese spy balloon incident and should have stuck to its guns.

That, said McCaul, was the “most in your face act of espionage, going across the United States, across our military nuclear sites and B-52 sites.”