China rejects Trump’s election meddling claims as ‘fabricated’ and ‘slanderous’
The US president has been making similar accusations for years, claiming China wanted him to lose against his Democratic rivals
The allegations were “entirely fabricated, maliciously slanderous and have long been proven completely groundless”, foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said on Friday.
It followed a prime-time national address by Trump on Thursday, when he accused Beijing of carrying out the “largest compromise of election data in history” and influencing American business leaders and journalists to “turn against” him.
Trump also alleged that China had paid US journalists to write negative articles about his administration during his first term as president.
Lin reiterated China’s principle of non-interference, stating that the country had no interest in meddling in US domestic affairs and had never done so.