Finger pointing no solution

The urgent need to rebalance the Sino-US economic relationship, as Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told a number of US senators on Thursday, is more than obvious.

Yet, his pronounced ardor to press for more access to the Chinese market and faster revaluation of the yuan as the elixir for all the US' economic ills is misdirected.

Given the current US political climate, sounding tough on China may help him become the first Chinese-American to serve as the US ambassador to China, but when it comes to improving the commercial relationship between the world's two largest economies, finger pointing simply does not work.