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Many allegations, little evidence: unpacking the China election-interference records
Declassified US intelligence files showing millions of Americans’ voter information do not back Trump’s claims Beijing hacked 2020 election
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Newly declassified US intelligence records show Chinese actors collected or acquired voter information covering millions of Americans and that Beijing developed capabilities that could be used to influence political opinion, but the documents do not substantiate US President Donald Trump’s claims that China stole the records of 220 million voters or manipulated the 2020 election.
In a nationally televised address on Thursday, Trump accused China of carrying out a sweeping campaign to interfere in the election he lost to Joe Biden, alleging that Beijing illicitly obtained about 220 million American voter records and sought to fabricate ballots in favour of Biden.
The documents released by the White House provide new details about China’s collection and analysis of US voter information, as well as an internal dispute among American intelligence officials over whether Beijing’s broader political activities amounted to election influence.
But they offer no evidence that China altered voter rolls, produced fraudulent ballots or interfered with vote counting, tabulation or certification in 2020.
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