Democrats criticize Trump’s claims of election interference – US politics live
The Guardian · L · trust 46/100
double quotation mark Trump’s remarks were at odds with the conciliatory tone he has struck with Beijing since he travelled to China to meet Xi Jinping in May. The Chinese president has been invited to Washington in September.
A 2021 US intelligence community assessment concluded that no foreign actor, including China, attempted to alter any technical aspect of the 2020 voting process. The report said that while Russia had conducted influence operations aimed at denigrating Biden’s campaign, China did not deploy any interference efforts intended to change the outcome of the election.
US intelligence assessed that China did not see either a Trump or a Biden victory as advantageous to Beijing and it was therefore not worth the risk of damaging the US-China relationship with interference efforts.
China has long denied claims by western governments, including the UK, that it has meddled in the politics of other countries. Several European countries have raised the alarm about Chinese spying operations in their legislatures. Last year a former parliamentary aide for Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland party was convicted of spying for China.
Read the original at The Guardian →
Open in TruthVane →