China says it has no interest in meddling in US presidential election

China has no interest in interfering in the United States presidential election, it said on Thursday after President Donald Trump said he believed Beijing would try to make him lose his re-election bid in November.

“The US presidential election is an internal affair, we have no interest in interfering in it,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters during a daily briefing. “We hope the people of the US will not drag China into its electoral politics.”

Geng reiterated that China was a victim of the epidemic and not its accomplice, adding that attempts by “certain politicians” to shift the blame away from their poor handling of the outbreak to Beijing would only “expose the problems of the US itself”.

“The US should know this: the enemy is the virus, not China,” he said.