Fact check: Trump’s claim that China caused 60,000 US factories to close

"We’ve lost, over a fairly short period of time, 60,000 factories in our country — closed, shuttered, gone. Six million jobs, at least, gone." — President Donald Trump, in remarks at the White House announcing tariffs on Chinese imports, March 22, 2018

Long before he was president, Donald Trump complained that China was "taking all our jobs." Now, with the executive branch at his command, Trump is getting even with a plan to impose $50 billion to $60 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports.

The president says China’s economic boom has come at the expense of U.S. manufacturers. To illustrate […]

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