"Keep tariffs on China - all of them - even if that raises prices for U.S. businesses and consumers", he said in the interview with The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). "Weaken the World Trade Organization so that it can’t overrule U.S. policies, and make it harder for American companies to move overseas despite the cost to their competitiveness."

“We changed the way people think about China,” Lighthizer noted. “We want a China policy that thinks about the geopolitical competition between the United States and an adversary - an economic adversary.”