Trump Against The Great ‘Stall’ Of China, Accuses Nation Of Trying To Meddle In Upcoming Poll Campaign

United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday (September 26) accused China of attempting to interfere in November's midterm elections in his country with the aim of damaging his electoral prospects, the CNN has reported. Trump made this accusation about China during his address as part of UN Security Council meeting on counter-proliferation in New York.

Trump suggested that the attempted Chinese interference was in response to the trade war he has waged against Beijing. “Regrettably, we found that China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election campaign in November against my administration," Trump said at the UN Security Council. They do not want me, or us, to win because I am the first President ever to challenge China on trade. And we are winning on trade. We are winning at every level. We don’t want them to meddle or interfere in our upcoming election.

Addressing a press conference after the Security Council meeting, Trump said, “We have evidence. We have evidence. It will come out. I can’t tell you now, but it didn’t come out of nowhere, that I can tell you.”

The President also complained that China’s retaliatory tariffs were targeting his rust belt and rural constituency. “They actually admitted that they are going after farmers,” Trump said. Trump also said, “One thing they are trying to do is convince people to go against Donald Trump.”

The President also tweeted about a four-page supplement in the Des Moines Register. China Daily, a Chinese government mouthpiece, owns the Register.

Trump has previously complained that China was orchestrating public relations campaign against tariffs. On 4 August, he tweeted that China “was spending a fortune on ads and PR, trying to convince and scare our politicians to fight me on tariffs.”