Trump's second term foreign policy likely to focus on 'strength' and 'deterrence': expert

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A second Trump presidency is giving supporters hope of a continuation of his first-term policies, while critics worry that he'll isolate the U.S. on the global stage at a delicate time for the international security landscape.

Richard Goldberg, senior adviser at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a former Trump administration NSC official, told Fox News Digital he sees a second Trump term as "going back to the basics of peace through strength [and] restoring deterrence."

"They're prioritizing China as our top threat to national security," Goldberg said, referencing the campaign’s platform. "Investing in our military, modernizing our military, expanding the use of AI and space, to ensure that we are able to overpower the CCP and Beijing and its wider access around the world."

Trump’s foreign policy record has remained a key point of comparison between him and his successor, President Biden, with many arguing Trump took an isolationist "America First" approach that damaged relations with key allies.

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"Isolationism is about going it alone and about viewing America's way of engaging the world as unilateral and independent and alone, as opposed to building multilateral alliances — a sort of unilateral mindset," Joel Rubin, a former State Department official during the Obama