U.S.-China economic ties must be rebalanced through implementation of Chinese market opening pledges that end the pattern of "China making and the United States taking," Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told a U.S. Senate hearing on Thursday, according to Reuters. "Rebalancing our economic relationship will require the type of market opening that the implementation of these commitments will bring," Locke told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be the next U.S. ambassador to China. -- SPA
