US has seen evidence of China trying to influence upcoming elections [Video]

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. has seen evidence of Chinese attempts to “influence and arguably interfere” with the upcoming U.S. elections, despite an earlier commitment from leader Xi Jinping not to do so.Blinken made the comments to CNN’s Kylie Atwood in an interview Friday at the close of a three-day to trip to China, where the top American diplomat spent hours meeting with top Chinese officials including Xi, as the two countries navigated a raft of contentious issues from U.S. tech controls to Beijing’s support for Moscow.Blinken said he repeated a message President Joe Biden gave to Xi during their summit in San Francisco last November not to interfere in the 2024 U.S. presidential elections. Then, Xi had pledged that that China would not do so, according to CNN reporting.”We have seen, generally speaking, evidence of attempts to influence and arguably interfere, and we want to make …