The very same way that strategic rival competes with us:
By using the rules to their advantage.
China even now, does not import America cars - it builds them. In China.
We are losing. Worse every day. Either we change the way we do business with China, or we break it off.
Not some day. Not later. Now.
We exported 5.34 billion dollars' worth of autos to China in 2011.
Granted, not enough . . . and some of those are BMW's from South Carolina, so a protectionist would say they don't count. Also, China recently imposed additional duties on U.S. auto imports. That dispute is on-going.