Yes. Did you see the video interview with his commerce secretary pick, where some guy from the Ayn Rand institute sneeringly said that exports weren’t important, and we large trade deficits are no big deal, and Wilbur Ross said (I paraphrase) “Ask China how it managed to bring such wealth to its citizens through massive exports?”
Very calm and measured.
Yep, China followed the same Asian model for growth as Japan and South Korea. Gain maximum possible access to the US market and allow minimum possible access to your home market. That's the ticket, and use your cheap labor to attract US factories and technology. Japan was cheap labor in the '50s and '60s as was South Korea.
And now other Asian nations are following that model and even trying to attract factories from China with even cheaper labor.