US Vice President Mike Pence has accused China of seeking a change of government in Washington, stepping up allegations of Beijing’s election interference to change the president.
Pence rallied support for US President Donald Trump on Thursday by painting China as the archenemy making “comprehensive and coordinated” efforts to change the president.
“To put it bluntly, President Trump’s leadership is working; China wants a different American president,” Pence said in a speech at the Hudson Institute think tank based in Washington, DC.
“There can be no doubt — China is meddling in America’s democracy.”
The vice president’s hard-hitting speech followed up on Trump’s claims that China was meddling in the US midterm elections by taking aim at his political base.
Neither Trump nor Pence provided hard evidence of Chinese meddling.
Pence cited China’s advertisements in US media, and its targeting of politically strategic states when…