China’s economic system is leading to sickness and death for the “victims” forced to live under the regime, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday.

Pompeo, who spoke to the Iowa Farm Bureau in Des Moines, Iowa, unleashed a broadside against Chinese President Xi Jinping’s autocracy while touting the superiority of American agriculture during an address. The speech, billed as an opportunity to discuss the ongoing trade war, contained an indictment of Beijing’s rival system of so-called “authoritarian capitalism.” It also gave Pompeo the opportunity to sound the anti-socialist note that has been a recent theme of President Trump as socialism gains currency among some Democrats.