<h1>Senior leader urges prioritising domestic production and self-reliance, warns against coercive dependence and economic exploitation</h1> A senior leader of a national volunteer organisation urged prioritising indigenous production and self-reliance, warning that international interdependence should not become coercive and asserting there is no substitute for domestic sourcing and autonomy. He characterized a foreign country's tariff policy as driven solely by self-interest but not constituting a legal or strategic threat to the state. He also identified systemic economic faults-rising inequality, concentrated economic power, regulatory and market mechanisms enabling exploitation, environmental harm, and transactional social relations-suggesting potential areas for regulatory reform and domestic industrial policy to address these concerns.