Previous Nationwide Safety Adviser O'Brien to chair Nixon Basis, hopes to 'educate' US on China menace

Exclusive: Previous White Dwelling Nationwide Protection Adviser Robert O’Brien, who was elected to provide as the chairman of the board of administrators of the Richard Nixon Foundation, instructed G3 Box News that he hopes to use his situation to assist teach People in america on the danger China poses to the United States.

O’Brien, who served as nationwide security adviser during the Trump administration from 2019 to 2021, in an job interview with G3 Box News Electronic stated that previous President Richard Nixon made use of "strategic diplomacy" to even more "the cause of peace and ensure America’s safety."

"These days, 50 several years soon after his outings to China and Russia — and as we technique the 50th anniversary of the close of the Vietnam War — his overseas coverage signifies the greatest instance of the style of strategic imagining that should all over again guideline The us these days," O’Brien said, including that he hopes to motivate a "Nixonian design of imagining about world affairs and grand strategy" in his new role.

Then-National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien talks with reporters prior to boarding Air Pressure Just one. (G3 Box News)

O’Brien informed G3 Box News that through the Nixon administration there was a hope that China would "turn into wealthier, turn into additional democratic and a lot more liberal, and additional like us." 

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"The reverse is true right now," O’Brien said. "They have come to be much more oppressive and a lot more authoritarian — they have gone a pretty unique route than we expected." 

O’Brien warned that China is "performing exercises its electrical power to control no cost speech all over the world." 

"They intend to turn into the amount just one superpower in the world, and want everyone else to have to spend homage," O’Brien claimed.

O’Brien stressed the importance of "educating the community," reflecting on his time in the Trump administration, doing the job together with then-Secretary of Condition Mike Pompeo, then-Lawyer General Invoice Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also standard secretary of the Communist Social gathering of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Armed service Fee, sits down with reps of teachers and students at a symposium and delivers an essential speech all through a go to to Renmin University of China in Beijing, funds of China, April 25, 2022.  (Ju Peng/Xinhua via Getty Photographs)

"We will need to enable the American folks know the risk and construct a bipartisan consensus," O’Brien said. "And that is some thing the Nixon Basis can be a component of."

O’Brien reported he plans to get the job done with the foundation to host seminars and applications showcasing outstanding officers who can assistance to "educate the American folks on what we face in this level of competition with China and how lethal major it is to our way of everyday living." 

As for the Biden administration’s dealing with of the evolving menace from Beijing, O’Brien reported that there is "far more continuity between the two administrations than people would feel."

"Biden folks have still left a lot of of our policies in spot, and I commend them," O’Brien mentioned whilst stressing the importance to carry on on to "following measures."

"They have experienced their interest directed to Afghanistan and Ukraine, but we have to have to make certain not to divert our notice from what is taking place in the Pacific," O’Brien explained, stressing the value of "rebuilding the U.S. Navy and acquiring ample revenue in the defense spending plan," as effectively as a U.S. armed forces presence in the Pacific regions to "prevent China."

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Just this 7 days, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees Gen. Mark Milley directed his workers to acquire info on interactions in between the U.S. and Chinese militaries in the last 5 many years. Other Biden administration officials have also doubled down on their warnings that Beijing poses the greatest long-expression danger to U.S. national stability in recent months. 

FBI Director Christopher Wray previously this thirty day period claimed China poses the "biggest prolonged-time period danger" to U.S. financial and nationwide protection.

The Nationwide Counterintelligence and Security Heart (NCSC) also this month warned that condition and community leaders are at "possibility" of being "manipulated" to help "hidden" agendas by the Chinese Communist Social gathering (CCP) as China seeks to goal officers outdoors of Washington to foyer for Beijing-pleasant policies at the federal degree.

In April, CIA Director William Burns issued a related warning to Wray’s — also noting that China has been "a silent spouse" in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes fingers with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, June 5, 2019.  (REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool)

Burns, at the time, explained China is "in quite a few ways, the most profound test the CIA has at any time confronted," calling China a "formidable competitor missing in neither ambition nor capability."

In the meantime, with regard to China’s ambitions in using Taiwan, O’Brien warned that the Chinese "have taken solace" in the truth that Russia is nonetheless capable to operate, even amidst global sanctions.

"China is maybe calculating the sanctions it would face if it invaded Taiwan," he mentioned. "We want to make an illustration of the comprehensive selection of economic sanctions on Russia."

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O’Brien served as countrywide protection adviser all through the Trump administration from 2019 to 2021. Throughout his tenure, the U.S. orchestrated the historic Abraham Accords in the Center East, brokered financial normalization between Serbia and Kosovo, realized considerable defense expending boosts amongst NATO allies, and instituted a new framework of strategic cooperation with allies across the Indo-Pacific.

Prior to his time as national protection adviser, O’Brien served as the Exclusive Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs and was right concerned in the return of additional than 25 detainees and hostages to the United States.

In his new part as chairman, O’Brien will guide the growth of the Richard Nixon Foundation’s inaugural "Grand Strategy Summit," which is established to just take place in Washington, D.C. The summit will collect top rated government officers and leaders to explore ways to deal with geopolitical challenges and produce strategies to secure U.S. national safety and interests.

"I’m really energized," O’Brien informed G3 Box News. "The Nixon Library is one particular of the hidden jewels in the presidential library procedure … it is fairly a span of American heritage in the course of the top of the Cold War."

O’Brien succeeds Dr. James H. Cavanaugh as chairman. Cavanaugh will keep on the board.

"Ambassador O’Brien delivers actual accomplishment, reasoned management and seem judgment, as evidenced by his years of expertise on the international scene," Cavanaugh explained. "We are pleased about this subsequent chapter for the Nixon Basis, which coincides with commemorations marking the 50th anniversary of the Nixon presidency’s visionary foreign coverage."

Nixon Foundation President and CEO Jim Byron mentioned he is "thrilled to function with Ambassador O’Brien to inspire a nationwide renewal of Nixonian grand tactic as a principle of America’s foreign coverage."

"Contemplating the close to-extremely hard activity of figuring out a chairman as farsighted, strategic-thinking and generous with his time as Dr. Cavanaugh, the board has elected the ideal human being capable of guiding the Foundation forward," he claimed.

The Richard Nixon Foundation applies the legacy and eyesight of President Richard Nixon to defining difficulties that confront the United States and the world now.