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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that China\u2019s alleged election meddling in the 2020 election, a key topic of his prime-time speech last week, \u201ctook place a long time ago,\u201d adding that \u201cwe do things to them, too.\u201d<\/p>

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The president was asked in the Oval Office whether he planned to put pressure on Chinese authorities over the allegations that he made Thursday without providing evidence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, we\u2019re going to talk to them about it,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI think China is maybe a little bit different today than it was then. But look, they do things and we do things to them, I\u2019ll be honest. We do things to them, too. It\u2019s not a one-way street.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his East Room address<\/a> last week, the president flagged vulnerabilities in the U.S. election infrastructure without saying they had been exploited. He said China made an \u201cillicit\u201d acquisition of U.S. voter files, containing information that included names, addresses, phone numbers and party affiliations \u2014 all of which is publicly available.<\/p>

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There is no evidence or intelligence that the Chinese government hacked or compromised state voter registration systems in 2020, two former senior U.S. officials said last week.<\/p>\n

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