"China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election, coming up in November. Against my administration," Trump told a UN Security Council meeting whose ostensible subject was nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Trump, chairing the Council for the first time since becoming US president, did not provide any evidence for his allegation, which China immediately rejected during the same meeting. We refuse to accept any unwarranted accusations against China," China's top diplomat Wang Yi told the Council. "China is actually placing propaganda ads in the Des Moines Register and other papers, made to look like news," Trump said in a Twitter post.

Source: Bangkok Post September 26, 2018 19:18 UTC