Trump accuses China of 'sinister election meddling'
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Hello, this is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Ankur Desai and in the early hours of Friday the 17th of July, these are our main stories. President Trump accuses China of massively compromising the data of US voters and alleged there was election meddling by Beijing that targeted him. Elsewhere, air quality alerts are issued to tens of millions of Canadians and Americans as smoke pollution spreads from hundreds of wildfires. And we tell you how China is bringing in strict controls to stop people from falling in love and forming deep bonds with AI chatbots. Also in this podcast, the Scottish city of Glasgow prepares to welcome thousands of athletes for the Commonwealth Games.
But is it ready? And... Imagine if we could bring down the cost of energy for people and businesses. Imagine good growth in every postcode and hope in every heart. Britain is about to get its seventh prime minister in 10 years. But who is Andy Burnham? US President Donald Trump has accused China of undermining the 2020 US presidential election. In a speech to The Nation, he announced that the White House is posting declassified intelligence documents that show what he called the largest compromise of election data in US history, accusing China of hacking some 220 million voter files.
This evidence shows that the election system we have dangerously exposes and really exposes like levels never thought possible to hacking, exploitation and foreign interference. Just as disturbingly, this vital information has for many years been covered up and hidden from you. The American people are beautiful, are great American people. But that all changes right now.
He went on to declare that what he called the deep state worked to downplay China's attempts to undermine the 2018 midterm elections and the 2020 presidential election, which Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden. The Democrats say Mr Trump is laying the ground to meddle in the midterms, where the Republicans risk losing control of Congress. Our correspondent in Washington, Nick Johnson, told us more about what President Trump had to say. This was a 26-minute address that Donald Trump gave from the White House. The top line here is him accusing China of interfering in that 2020 presidential election, which he, of course, lost to Joe Biden. How did they interfere? Well, Donald Trump said that Beijing managed to access 220 million US voter files, personal information, who they're likely to vote for.
And he described that as the largest conspiracy compromise in election data history. He didn't go on to explain, though, how China accessing that information could have affected the election in any way. And we've heard in the past hour or so from a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington, who said that China has never and will never interfere in the presidential elections of the US. And Mr. Trump also made other claims in his address. He accused what he called the deep state parts of US intelligence of covering up Chinese interference and covering up meddling in the 2020 election. Now, we should say that in an assessment that was done in 2021 under the The then US Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, who's now the CIA director, found no evidence of foreign interference in the 2020 election whatsoever.
And Mr. Trump also made other claims in the speech as well. He said there were hundreds of thousands of non-US citizens registered to vote. And he painted a picture of a very broken and vulnerable US election system. What evidence is there about this impact and the alleged compromise? And what does Donald Trump, well, he's made these sort of accusations before. Why is he saying this now? Well, in terms of the evidence, he said that there's going to be a number of files that are going to be released, documents are going to be released, which will outline more detail as to the evidence that he's referring to. We haven't yet looked at all those documents.
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