Lu Wei Quotes

No one wants to return to the old protectionism, but we need to protect our own…. We are committed to the unrestricted defense of national interests.

We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.

Less care for internationalism and more concern for national prosperity!

Perhaps the globalization potion is too strong for us today; it should be watered down with some measure of economic nationalism.

A vital part of Trump's appeal was his promise to make America emphatically great again, staunching the haemorrhage of jobs and investment to China and Mexico, and cutting back on handouts to NATO and illegal migrants.

We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.

Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.

A form of protectionism should be enforced at national level, at least on strategic areas such as agriculture.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

Every country in the world protects its economy except the E.U. We would restore economic sovereignty and decision-making to France. We would protect strategic industries, and we would protect vital areas such as the energy sector. But we would not cut ourselves from the world. There could still be trade.

If we do not counter the argument that most radical nationlists use, which is, 'To protect is to be protectionist,' if we don't counter that argument, all of our economies will suffer.

Good relations with Russia are great news. Putting a stop to the [Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership] is great news. Defending American industry against the invasion of Chinese products. Renegotiating the role of NATO. And a similar approach on the issue of immigration. This is all great news.

India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

Trade has always existed, but we used to defend our strategic interests. Could you imagine the United States allowing French engineering giant Alstom to purchase General Electric? I don't think so.

There is big resistance from vested interests in China that don't want to open up to competition.

What built America's called the American system, from Hamilton to Polk to Henry Clay to Lincoln to the Roosevelts. A system of protection of our manufacturing, financial system that lends to manufacturers, OK, and the control of our borders.

It is right for us not to want our country transformed into a mere corridor, a giant railway station.

Leaving the E.U. will enable the U.K. to undertake a major campaign for import substitution.

Trump promised an 'America First' foreign policy rooted in the national interest, not in nostalgia.

We want to defend the rights of Malaysians. We don't want to sell chunks of this country to foreign companies who will develop whole towns.

I will tell you unequivocally, a wall from sea to shining sea is not the right direction to go.

The Trump vision, in fact, is an America unbound by a half-century of trade deals, free to pursue a nationalistic approach in which success is measured not by the quality of its alliances but the economic return on its transactions.

Investment by any foreign company in any element of the U.K.'s Critical National Infrastructure should receive careful scrutiny.

Japan is not going to do anything with any country that harms the national interest.

President Trump has done an extraordinary amount to promote our capitalist origins here at home while simultaneously, and this is how the government should work, protecting American workers from unbridled capitalism by redoing our trade agreements.