Here is a decidedly strange story. US Vice-President Mike Pence has just claimed that Russian interference in US elections "pales in comparison" with China's alleged involvement in disrupting America's political processes.
"China wants a different American president; China is meddling in America's democracy," he said in a speech last week to the Hudson Institute, a Washington-based think-tank.
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