Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served in the Cabinets of both Barack Obama and George W. Bush, admitted in a new interview that former President Donald Trump’s assessment of China was correct. Conversely, Gates was heavily critical of President Joe Biden’s foreign policy competence.

During a “60 Minutes” interview with Anderson Cooper, Gates explained that he believes China poses the greatest military and economic threat to the U.S. and that Trump correctly diagnosed the threat.

“I think this is a place where President Trump got it right. He basically awakened Americans — and I would say especially the business community — to a China that the assumptions about which we had gotten wrong,” Gates admitted.

“The assumption for 40 years was that a richer China would be a freer China — and that’s clearly not going to happen,” Gates explained.