<p>Robert O&#8217;Brien, who served as former President Donald Trump&#8217;s national security adviser, laid out his vision of what the U.S. needs to do to prevent a war from breaking out with China in the next several years.</p>
<p>O&#8217;Brien made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; when asked what another Trump administration would do if China invaded Taiwan.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s called strategic ambiguity,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien said. &#8220;And we don&#8217;t tell the Chinese how we&#8217;re going to react to their actions. But the key thing is peace through strength. If we have a strong Navy, if we move our soldiers and Marines out of Europe, in Germany, where they&#8217;re garrisoned, and put them in Guam and Hawaii and the Philippines, and Australia, where we have Marines already, that sends a strong message to the Chinese not to invade.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The key is to deter war, not to fight and win a war, which we need to do if it happens,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But we need to deter the Chinese and the Communist Party from – from invading Taiwan in the first place, which we failed to do with Russia in Ukraine. And so strength will deter the Chinese from invading. it&#8217;s not talk. It&#8217;s how they see our force posture.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said that the Marines were perfectly suited to fight in Asia and that they would be a greater deterrent there than in Europe where war has already broken out.</p>
<p>O&#8217;Brien said that the U.S. also needed to move a carrier strike group to the region to again send China a message to not invade.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need to increase our energy production,&#8221; he said, adding that the U.S. also needed to &#8220;rebuild our military, rebuild our Navy, get our shipyards producing ships again.&#8221;</p>
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