Saloni Subha ( Intern Journalist ) Russia and China are trying to undermine US democracy in the run-up to November’s presidential election, Joe Biden said, citing intelligence briefings he is now receiving.
“The Russian is still engaged in trying to delegitimize our electoral process. Fact,” the presumptive Democratic Challenger said at a fundraiser on Friday according to the Washington Post.
China and others are engaged as well in activities that are designed for us to lose confidence in the result,” he added. It is normal for presidential nominees of the major parties to have intelligence briefings, though it is not clear when Biden started to receive his.on June 30 he said he may ask for a briefing, but that he had not been offered and up until then.
The foreign ministers of China and Russia held a telephone conversation on Friday, in which they opposed “US unilateralism”, China ‘s state news agency Xinhua reported.
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi told Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, that Beijing felt the US was reviving a “Cold War Mentality” in its policy toward China, according to the report. It quoted Lavrov as saying that Russia opposed unilateralism in international affairs. The remarks come as tensions between the US and China have increased over Hong Kong, an ongoing trade war, and China’s handling of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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