U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper railed against China’s failure to fully enforce international sanctions against North Korea, calling it a “catalog of bad behavior” during a webinar on Tuesday.

Speaking at an online event hosted by the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Esper expressed concerns that the Communist Party of China (CCP) “continues to engage in systematic rule breaking, coercion and other malign activities.”

“The [People’s Republic of China] continues to look the other way as North Korea violates U.N. Security Council resolutions,” Esper said, “thereby shielding Pyongyang from the international consequences of its pursuit of dangerous and