China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs pushed back against U.S. President Donald Trump's claims of fraud in the 2020 election, calling them "malicious slander."
On the 18th, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said at a regular briefing, "China has long adhered to the principle of noninterference in internal affairs, has no interest in the U.S. presidential election, and has never interfered," adding, "It is purely fabricated, malicious slander, and has long since been proven to be absurd."
The remarks rebuffed Trump, who again expounded on the theory of fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, and Trump, in a national address the previous night, also released what he said were U.S. administration findings that China intervened in the 2020 election to ensure his defeat.
At the core of the claim is that China illegally obtained more than 200 million pieces of voter information to meddle in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, and it also said China illegally obtained more than 200 million pieces of voter information in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Lin Jian, Spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said, "We urge the United States to engage in self-reflection and stop groundless smears against China," and "not to use China as an excuse in elections and to do more things that are beneficial to China-U.S. relations."
He also criticized, "The international community has clearly seen who habitually interferes in other countries' internal affairs, who has long conducted indiscriminate surveillance of governments, corporations, and ordinary people around the world, and who has stolen other countries' citizens' data on a large scale."
Trump, in a speech at a FIFA reception in Manhattan, New York, ahead of the 2026 North and Central America World Cup final, also repeated his fraud claim, saying, "I should have been president for eight years (in a row), but they rigged the election."
Meanwhile, Trump the previous day also released materials he said the U.S. administration had collected and analyzed. However, local media said it amounted only to a rehash of previously raised conspiracy theories without clear evidence.