They wanted the U.S. to do more than it was doing to correct its externalimbalance and they showed an interest in actually cashing in their excess dollar reserves for gold.
The more we try to fix the imbalance with more ideas that are aimed at fixing that which is external, rather than working on our internal selves and our relationships with one another by flipping ourselves from the qualities of egoism to the qualities of altruism, the more the imbalance increases.