# Professor Lawrence White discusses the US-China trade deficit during President Obama's first term

1 Faculty News June 28, 2016 ![PolitiFact logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030740.jpg?itok=AksI8GU5)>

Excerpt from [PolitiFact](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/28/donald-trump/checking-donald-trump-hillary-clintons-role-growin/) -- "'This economic expansion would be expected to expand imports more than exports would expand, and thus the trade deficit would be expected to widen, holding other things constant,' [Lawrence J. White](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white), a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

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