BEIJING- China has no interest in interfering in the US presidential elections, it said on Thursday, after US President Donald Trump said he believed Beijing would try to make him lose his re-election
bid in November.
"The US presidential election is an internal affair, we have no interest in interfering in it," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters during a daily briefing.In an interview for Reuters on Wednesday, Trump said "China will do anything they can to have me lose this race," adding that he believed Beijing wants his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, to win the election to ease the pressure Trump has placed on China over trade and other issues.
Trump also said during the interview he was looking at different options in terms of consequences for Beijing over the coronavirus pandemic. He and other top officials have blamed China for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus. It has infected more than 1 million Americans and has caused economic decline.Geng reiterated during Thursday's briefing that China was a victim of the epidemic and not its accomplice, adding that attempts by "certain politicans" to shift the blame away from their poor handling of the outbreak to Beijing would only "expose the problems of the US itself.
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