China Denies Trump’s Claim It’s Trying to Make Him Lose Election
- Beijing will ‘do anything’ to defeat him, Trump tells Reuters
- China says ‘certain U.S. politicians’ seeking to shift blame
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China rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that Beijing was trying to damage his re-election chances with its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, as rhetoric between the world’s two largest economies continued to heat up.
Trump said in an interview with Reuters published Wednesday that China’s response to the disease was focused on a desire to see him lose in November. The president, who provided no evidence for why China would deliberately mishandle an outbreak that has killed more than 4,600 of its citizens, said he was considering various ways to punish Beijing.