Ex-Trump adviser urges him to cut ties with China if he makes it back to the White House

Donald Trump’s former national security adviser has put forward his own recommendations to the next presidential administration: cut economic ties with China and resume nuclear weapon testing.

Offering his advice in a 5,000-word article for Foreign Affairs magazine, Robert O’Brien, who served as national security adviser from 2019 to 2021 under the Trump administration, said that “as China seeks to undermine American economic and military strength, Washington should return the favor.”

“Washington should, in fact, seek to decouple its economy from China’s,” O’Brien wrote in the article titled “The Return of Peace Through Strength: Making the Case for Trump’s Foreign Policy.”

Sincer serving in the Trump administration, O’Brien has still kept busy on the public stage, having met with top Israeli government officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a three-day visit to Israel last month.

He took the trip with two other Trump administration foreign policy officials, he told NBC News, which reported that the three remain close with the former president, who was likely briefed on their visit.

“My goal on this trip was really to show support for Israel,” O’Brien told the outlet. “But at the same time, people know that I’m a former Trump official; I’m in regular contact with the president and strongly support him in November.”

O’Brien offered other opinions in his Foreign Affairs op-ed, arguing that the 60 percent tariffs on China that Trump has advocated for should be followed with tougher export controls on any technology that may be of use to China.

“This morass of American weakness and failure cries out for a Trumpian restoration of peace through strength,” O’Brien said in the article. “Nowhere is that