{"id":6324,"date":"2026-07-17T21:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:37:30","slug":"trump-alleged-china-took-us-election-data-its-leader-is-still-planning-for-a-lavish-state-visit-to-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324","title":{"rendered":"Trump alleged China took US election data. Its leader is still planning for a lavish state visit to the US"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n

\n Ordinarily, a claim like the one President Donald Trump leveled at China in prime time this week might herald a major rupture in ties with Beijing.\n <\/p>

Read more Trump says he\u2019s holding Canada responsible for wildfire smoke and threatens higher tariffs<\/a><\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe People\u2019s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history,\u201d Trump declared Thursday from the East Room, sounding personally stung that, according to a minority view of intelligence, the country had tried to undermine his election chances in 2020.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe Chinese government wanted (the) US president to lose the next election,\u201d he claimed. \u201cThe reason they wanted me to lose is because they knew I was wise to them, charged them billions and billions of dollars worth of tariffs, and built the strongest military anywhere in the world.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The assertions were serious \u2014 if neither new nor entirely backed with evidence \u2014 and drew immediate indignation from Chinese officials. Yet they were not accompanied in Trump\u2019s speech by any suggestion he planned to punish the Chinese government for its alleged actions.\n <\/p>\n

\n By the next day, a White House official said planning for Chinese leader Xi Jinping\u2019s lavish state visit to Washington in two months was continuing apace. And they offered no answer when asked whether Trump planned any repercussions for China in response to what he claimed was a data breach of historic scale.\n <\/p>\n

\n It was a different story for American intelligence officials who Trump alleged had withheld the China information from him during his first term. He tasked four separate federal agencies with investigating, instructing them \u201cto fire those involved in the cover-up, and to file criminal charges, if appropriate, against these people.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The difference in approach laid bare Trump\u2019s fixation on re-litigating the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden. But it was also evidence he has little interest in upending what has become a fragile balance with Xi after a fraught first year back in office.\n <\/p>\n

\n In some ways, Trump\u2019s speech Thursday marked a departure from the tone he has struck in recent months toward China and its leader, with whom he has worked to cultivate personal ties over the course of several in-person meetings.\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n\n
\n
\"President<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
\nPresident Donald Trump during a prime-time address to the nation in the East Room of the White House on Thursday.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
Saul Loeb\/AFP\/Bloomberg\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019m a big fan of President Xi,\u201d Trump said at last week\u2019s NATO summit in Turkey, praising the country for mostly staying on the sidelines of the war in Iran, despite fears early in the war that Beijing could provide Tehran with military assistance.\n <\/p>\n

\n After Trump levied his election accusations on Thursday night, China\u2019s foreign ministry responded by saying they had \u201cno factual ground.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cChina adheres to the principle of non-interference in other countries\u2019 internal affairs. We have no interest in interfering in the US elections and have never done so,\u201d spokesperson Lin Jian said, offering criticism of the US and alluding to the negative impact of the claims could have on US-China ties. \u201cWe urge the US to reflect on its own behavior, stop unwanted vilification of China \u2026 and act more in ways conducive to China-US relations.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Stabilizing ties has been a priority for Trump\u2019s administration recently after a bruising year of tariff standoffs. Xi hosted Trump for a pomp-filled state visit to Beijing in May, and the two leaders plan to meet again in Washington in late September.\n <\/p>

Read more Trump urges Darline Graham to run in South Carolina special election<\/a><\/p>\n

\n Trump has also suggested he may return to China this year for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in November in Shenzhen. And Xi could visit the United States for the Group of 20 summit Trump is hosting in Miami.\n <\/p>\n

\n In all of his engagements with Xi over the past year, Trump has never made public mention of Chinese attempts at hacking US infrastructure, let alone sensitive election data.\n <\/p>\n

\n That\u2019s despite the FBI cyber experts investigating multiple sophisticated Chinese cyber espionage campaigns aimed at US government and corporate secrets.\n <\/p>\n

\n The documents the Trump administration released on Thursday, while lacking any evidence for major election fraud or efforts to change votes, did reinforce just how voracious Chinese intelligence services have been in collecting information on Americans, and provided fresh evidence of the lengths that Chinese hackers allegedly went to spy on senior US government officials and the 2020 presidential campaign of Joe Biden.\n <\/p>\n

\n One Chinese hacking group was using techniques to track the email accounts of Biden campaign staffers, suggesting that \u201cthe Chinese operators are mapping out the target network for follow-on approaches, possibly including tasking campaign staffers\u2019 e-mail accounts in the Chinese military\u2019s signals intelligence system for collection,\u201d one declassified intelligence report says.\n <\/p>\n

\n Other reports in the collection of documents assert that Chinese government actors have been downloading voter registration information in numerous states. In some cases, the information was already publicly available. And there is no mention of China actively exploiting the data on voters it collected or stole, nor that they accessed systems in a way that would allow them to change people\u2019s votes.\n <\/p>\n

\n The documents paint a picture of Chinese intelligence services that are collecting just about any information they can on hundreds of millions of Americans.\n <\/p>\n

\n That, in the aggregate, is not a new revelation. Between the 2015 hack of the Office of Personnel Management and subsequent hacks of American health care providers and other companies, US intelligence officials have long warned that Chinese spies have a detailed picture of tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of Americans. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in 2024 that the US had seen evidence of Chinese attempts to \u201cinfluence and arguably interfere\u201d with the upcoming US elections, despite an earlier commitment from leader Xi Jinping not to do so.\n <\/p>\n

\n The US has in the past applied targeted financial sanctions and sought criminal indictments of state-sponsored Chinese hackers.\n <\/p>\n

\n But a day after Trump claimed the Chinese government had obtained 220 million US voter files, leading to an \u201cunprecedented election security nightmare,\u201d there was little to indicate he planned similar punishment.\n <\/p>

Read more People considered me ugly as a child. Now, I know they were wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ordinarily, a claim like the one President Donald Trump leveled at China in prime time this week might herald a major rupture in ties with Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nTrump alleged China took US election data. Its leader is still planning for a lavish state visit to the US - Relocation Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump alleged China took US election data. Its leader is still planning for a lavish state visit to the US - Relocation Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ordinarily, a claim like the one President Donald Trump leveled at China in prime time this week might herald a major rupture in ties with Beijing.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Relocation Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-07-17T21:37:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/dd8f50cfcfe3f269f9e9bd2ac41a537e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"512\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/?p=6324#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/?p=6324\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3d25fb966f660ab012820a9e0acc09be\"},\"headline\":\"Trump alleged China took US election data. Its leader is still planning for a lavish state visit to the US\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-17T21:37:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/?p=6324\"},\"wordCount\":1061,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/?p=6324#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/b0b4051fdd0f4fd0190763035124fef9.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/?p=6324#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/?p=6324\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/?p=6324\",\"name\":\"Trump alleged China took US election data. Its leader is still planning for a lavish state visit to the US - Relocation Times\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/?p=6324#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/?p=6324#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/b0b4051fdd0f4fd0190763035124fef9.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-17T21:37:30+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3d25fb966f660ab012820a9e0acc09be\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/?p=6324#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/?p=6324\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/?p=6324#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/b0b4051fdd0f4fd0190763035124fef9.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/b0b4051fdd0f4fd0190763035124fef9.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":450},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/?p=6324#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Trump alleged China took US election data. Its leader is still planning for a lavish state visit to the US\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Relocation Times\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3d25fb966f660ab012820a9e0acc09be\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/relocationtimess.com\\\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Trump alleged China took US election data. Its leader is still planning for a lavish state visit to the US - Relocation Times","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Trump alleged China took US election data. Its leader is still planning for a lavish state visit to the US - Relocation Times","og_description":"Ordinarily, a claim like the one President Donald Trump leveled at China in prime time this week might herald a major rupture in ties with Beijing.","og_url":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324","og_site_name":"Relocation Times","article_published_time":"2026-07-17T21:37:30+00:00","og_image":[{"width":768,"height":512,"url":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/dd8f50cfcfe3f269f9e9bd2ac41a537e.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/#\/schema\/person\/3d25fb966f660ab012820a9e0acc09be"},"headline":"Trump alleged China took US election data. Its leader is still planning for a lavish state visit to the US","datePublished":"2026-07-17T21:37:30+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324"},"wordCount":1061,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b0b4051fdd0f4fd0190763035124fef9.jpg","articleSection":["Politics"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324","url":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324","name":"Trump alleged China took US election data. Its leader is still planning for a lavish state visit to the US - Relocation Times","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b0b4051fdd0f4fd0190763035124fef9.jpg","datePublished":"2026-07-17T21:37:30+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/#\/schema\/person\/3d25fb966f660ab012820a9e0acc09be"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b0b4051fdd0f4fd0190763035124fef9.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b0b4051fdd0f4fd0190763035124fef9.jpg","width":800,"height":450},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6324#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Trump alleged China took US election data. Its leader is still planning for a lavish state visit to the US"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/","name":"Relocation Times","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/#\/schema\/person\/3d25fb966f660ab012820a9e0acc09be","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/relocationtimess.com"],"url":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}