{"id":39859,"date":"2026-07-17T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39859"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:08:43","slug":"us-president-revives-china-election-claims","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-president-revives-china-election-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"US President revives China election claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">United States (US) President Donald Trump has accused China on interfering in the 2020 elections, reigniting\u00a0his long-running attacks on election security despite a US intelligence assessment that found no evidence that Beijing altered the 2020 vote which he lost.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\nIn an address, Trump says that he was declassifying sensitive information.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\nThis comes ahead of the upcoming November midterm elections.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The Republicans will be defending their congressional majorities and face the possibility of losing control of either one or both chambers.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15386,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-39859","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"US President Donald Trump","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39866,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39859\/revisions\/39866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}