Beijing has sharply dismissed President Donald Trump’s allegations that China has interfered in US elections, mirroring its strong reaction to similar accusations he has made over the years.
The allegations are “entirely fabricated, maliciously slanderous and have long been proven completely groundless”, foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said Friday.
In a prime-time national address on Thursday, Trump 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.
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.
“On the contrary, the international community sees all too clearly who routinely interferes in the internal affairs of other nations, conducts long-term, indiscriminate surveillance of governments, businesses and ordinary citizens worldwide and steals the data of other countries’ citizens on a massive scale,” the spokesman said.