“We have a higher deficit with China now than we did before.”
What PolitiFact found
The most inclusive measurement, for goods and services, shows the U.S. trade deficit with China was smaller under Trump in 2019 than it was in any of the final three years of the Obama administration.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 29 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 September 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly 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.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.