DOJ records reveal China's government spent nearly $80 million on influence operations targeting media, lobbying and policy in the United States.

President Trump downplayed China's meddling in U.S. elections, five days after he accused China of "the largest compromise of election data in history."

But aggressive pressure, driven by fresh tech curbs and tariffs, risks souring the high-stakes meeting with Xi Jinping, analysts say.

How aggressively Mr Trump advances these plans depends, unusually, on Congress. The body has shown rare resistance to the president through its reauthorisation of defence spending. In December it imposed barriers to keep the president from shrinking American forces in Europe below 76,000 troops, only a few thousand short of the current level.

Trump also repeated his calls for the Republican-led Congress to pass the "SAVE America Act," a controversial election bill that lacks support to pass.

Donald Trump has accused China of trying to rig the 2020 presidential election in an extraordinary primetime address from the White House.

President Donald Trump downplayed the likelihood he would order retaliation against China over his unfounded allegations that Beijing illegally compromised American election data.

President Donald Trump delivered a rare primetime address about an issue that has consumed him for years - the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden.

Chinese officials appear to think that President Trump’s accusations that China interfered in the 2020 U.S. elections were driven by domestic politics, not foreign policy.

Donald Trump has paused a major military offensive against Iran. The decision came after defence officials warned that critical shortages in the Pentagon's Patriot antimissile interceptor stockpiles would expose US troops to retaliatory strikes.