Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) took a shot at Biden administration officials for their efforts to meet with Chinese officials, comparing them to “lovestruck teenagers.”

“Biden administration officials should stop chasing after their Chinese communist counterparts like lovestruck teenagers. It’s embarrassing and it’s pathetic,” Cotton said during an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” when asked about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s visit to Singapore, where he attended a conference also attended by his Chinese counterpart, Li Shangfu.

The two shook hands at a dinner Friday — an unexpected greeting, after China rejected a U.S. request for a meeting during the annual defense and security forum that Austin had traveled to Singapore for.