Trump Tells UN China Seeks to Interfere in Midterm Elections
- Chinese envoy rejects Trump allegation at Security Council
- Remarks come three days after China bought ad in Iowa paper
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President Donald Trump told the United Nations Security Council that China is attempting to interfere in the 2018 midterm congressional elections and alleged Beijing seeks to help his opponents.
His remarks came three days after China placed an advertising supplement in Iowa’s largest newspaper attacking Trump’s trade war with Beijing. The four-page supplement in the Des Moines Register, Iowa’s largest newspaper, highlighted the impact of the U.S.-China trade war on the state’s soy farmers. The supplement called the dispute “the fruit of a president’s folly.”