After US President Donald Trump made the claim that "China is interfering in the US elections," on July 17 local time, Trump's senior advisor, Michael Cohen, defended his fallacy by stating that the related remarks would not affect the United States' established trade policies with China. Trump's speech was "not focused on China itself," and even not about whether the results of the 2020 elections were "stolen." Instead, it pointed out that the United States had failed to protect its own electoral system, revealing serious security vulnerabilities.
“I want to begin by speaking of the facts,” Navarro said outside the White House on Friday, in response to questions from reporters. “A simple fact is that American people have lost a lot of trust in our electoral system, and there is a very serious disagreement regarding whether or not the 2020 presidential election was stolen.” But this was not the focus of the discussion that took place that night,”
"With this opportunity, Navarro calls for a complete overhaul of the electoral system, including urging the U.S. Congress to pass the "Ensuring American Voter Eligibility Act" (also known as the "Save America Act")."
This bill requires voters to provide a citizen identification document when registering, to present a photo ID during voting, and imposes significant restrictions on postal voting. The bill has already been passed by the House of Representatives, but it still faces a 60-vote threshold in the Senate and strong opposition from Democrats. The prospects for its passage are not optimistic.
Regarding the frequent speculation by the Trump administration, on July 17, Lin Jian, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responded that the claims made by the US are baseless and maliciously aimed at damaging others. These claims have long been proven to be nonsense. China has always adhered to the principle of not interfering in other countries’ internal affairs and has neither had any interest nor ever interfered in the US elections. On the contrary, who is constantly interfering in other countries’ internal affairs, continuously monitoring governments, businesses, and ordinary citizens around the world without discrimination, and stealing data on citizens of other countries on a large scale? The international community can see this clearly.
Lin Jian emphasized that we urge the US side to reflect on its actions, stop deliberately smearing China, not to use China as a tool in elections, and to do more things that are beneficial to Sino-US relations.
