“We have a higher deficit with China now than we did before.”
What Washington Post found
The trade deficit in goods and services with China climbed to $380 billion from 2017 to 2018, but then, because of Trump’s tariff war, fell to $308 billion in 2019. It kept falling in 2020.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (former vice president) made this claim around 29 September 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 October 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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Also checked by
- PolitiFact: Mostly False“We have a higher deficit with China now than we did before.”
Where the claim appeared
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