President Joe Biden and Congress must come to terms with a “linked” authoritarian network eager to undermine the United States and impose their will on their neighbors, according to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

“These folks want bad things for us,” Pompeo told the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. “They want to undermine that very idea of freedom, here at home. And we have a responsibility to get it right, economically, diplomatically and make sure we have a strong military to defend those, too.”