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Trump Accuses China of Meddling in Midterm Elections

<p>President Donald Trump is putting China on blast yet again and this time it isn&&num;8217&semi;t about the U&period;S&period;-China Trade deficit&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Wednesday&comma; Trump accused the communist country of &ldquo&semi;attempting to interfere&rdquo&semi; in the upcoming midterm elections during the U&period;N&period; meeting in New York&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Regrettably&comma; we found that China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election&comma; coming up in November&comma; against my administration&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Trump&period; &&num;8220&semi;They do not want me or us to win because I am the first president ever to challenge China on trade&comma; and we are winning on trade &mdash&semi; we are winning at every level&period; We don&rsquo&semi;t want them to meddle or interfere in our upcoming election&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Trump Administration has imposed 25 percent taxes on &dollar;34 billion of Chinese goods&period; But this appears to be just the beginning&period; Another &dollar;16 billion of Chinese goods will be imposed to more tariffs shortly and the administration also released a list of &dollar;200 billion of Chinese goods that will be subjected to 10 percent tariffs&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In response&comma; China imposed retaliatory tariffs against the U&period;S&period; on farm products&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump has also said he is ready to tax all the &dollar;505&period;5 billion in goods from China that were imported last year&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Trump&comma; because of this&comma; the Chinese government is desperately trying to make sure the GOP doesn&&num;8217&semi;t win elections come November&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>China&&num;8217&semi;s foreign minister was quick to deny the accusations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;China has all along followed the principle of non-interference in other countries&&num;8217&semi; domestic affairs&period; This is a tradition of Chinese foreign policy&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi&period; &&num;8220&semi;We did not and will not interfere in any countries&&num;8217&semi; domestic affairs&period; We refuse to accept any unwarranted accusations against China&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last month&comma; U&period;S&period; National Security Adviser John Bolton backed up Trump&&num;8217&semi;s claims though&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I can say definitively that it&&num;8217&semi;s a sufficient national security concern about Chinese meddling&comma; Iranian meddling and North Korean meddling that we&&num;8217&semi;re taking steps to try to prevent it&comma; so it&&num;8217&semi;s all four of those countries&comma; really&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Bolton to <em>ABC News&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dan Coats&comma; U&period;S&period; Director of National Intelligence&comma; also said on Tuesday that China is a threat especially when it comes to its cyber activities&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The Chinese government uses all of the capabilities at their disposal to influence US policies&comma; spread propaganda&comma; manipulate the media and pressure individuals&comma; including students&comma; critical of Chinese policies&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Coats&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We recently reported that China&&num;8217&semi;s spy network has at least 25&comma;000 Chinese agents in the U&period;S&period; to steal technology&comma; according to billionaire business magnate Guo Wengui&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Later in the day&comma; Trump tweeted photographs of a newspaper with recent propaganda from the Chinese government&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;China is actually placing propaganda ads in the Des Moines Register and other papers&comma; made to look like news&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Trump&period; &ldquo&semi;That&rsquo&semi;s because we are beating them on Trade&comma; opening markets&comma; and the farmers will make a fortune when this is over&excl;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Author&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> We have been saying this all along&comma; China is a much greater threat than Russia&period; Russia was never a serious threat to our elections&period; China&comma; on the other hand&comma; with its technology and control of its people and the media&comma; can be&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> It&&num;8217&semi;s amazing to me that the liberal press is going on about how he has not presented &&num;8220&semi;proof&period;&&num;8221&semi; First&comma; the liberal media &lpar;Washington Post&comma; NY Times&comma; CNN&comma; and many others&rpar; has been caught many times making claims without proof that have turned out to be false&period; Trump has access to classified information&comma; he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t need to present &&num;8220&semi;proof&&num;8221&semi; and it would indeed be a bad idea&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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