The White House spokeswoman declined to provide details about how the administration would like China to accomplish the surplus-cutting goal -- whether increased purchases of US products would suffice, or whether it wants China to make major changes to its industrial policies, cut subsidies to state-owned enterprises or further reduce steel and aluminium capacity.
China could always just cut tariffs on US products, and let the marketime decide. Oh wait... they are commies and don’t believe in free trade.