TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Chinese government on Friday denied United States President Donald Trump's accusations that Beijing had interfered in the U.S. election.
"The US allegations have no factual ground and are aimed at vilifying China," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian told reporters in Beijing, as quoted by ANTARA.
Trump alleged Friday that since the 2020 election cycle, China has obtained the data of 220 million U.S. voters, which he called “the largest compromise of election data in history.”
In a nationally televised prime-time speech, Trump announced the declassification of intelligence documents that he said showed widespread foreign interference and serious vulnerabilities in the U.S. election system.
However, Lin said similar allegations had long been proven baseless.
"China adheres to the principal of non-intervention in other states’ internal affairs. China has no interest in interfering in the U.S. elections and has never done so," he said.
Instead, Lin questioned, “who has wantonly interfered in other countries’ internal affairs, conducted indiscriminate surveillance of governments, businesses and general public worldwide over a long period of time and compromised citizens’ data of other countries at a large scale.”
The U.S. is scheduled to hold midterm elections in November 2026.
Trump, citing a CIA report, said that in mid-2018 during his first term, the Chinese Communist Party had a policy of “leverage all domestic and foreign elements” who opposed Trump in an effort to reduce his potential vote share in the 2020 election, force him to resign, or prevent him from being re-elected.
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