Donald Trump indicated on Tuesday that he did not intend to go after China after accusing America’s main geopolitical rival of causing an election security “nightmare” and actively interfering in the 2020 election.
The president seemed to distance himself from the claims he made about the Chinese government as he was asked by a journalist whether he would put any pressure on Beijing to stop efforts aimed at sowing discord in U.S. elections. Trump, in a national address last week, claimed that the 2020 election’s outcome was influenced by the “largest compromise of election data in history”.
On Tuesday, Trump suggested that he believed China’s government had already learned its lesson, and even seemed to downplay the severity of his highly contested accusations.
“I think China is maybe a little bit different today than it was then,” Trump said. “They do things and we do things to them.”
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