What is the real truth?

Donald Trump is trumping and thumping that the US deficit with China has been a constant 500 billion surplus to China's deficit.

Therefore the solution is TARIFFS!

What is the actual truth behind his figure. 

Obviously you cannot go to a pro-Trump dissertation about it.

You have to find a contrarian source.

Well here it is:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/09/c_137098407.htm

And amazingly in it, is a Yale University authority, Stephen Roach, a senior fellow at the Yale University Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, who offers a clearer light on the subject.

Can we say that The Donald, like every good New York businessman is a crook-at-heart?

And that he is hysterically misleading the US citizenry.