China on Friday denied US President Donald Trump's allegations that it sought to influence US elections and obtained tens of millions of records of American voter data.

A spokesman for the Chinese embassy in the United States in Washington said in a statement: 'China has always adhered to the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries. The US election is an internal affair of the United States, and its outcome is determined by the votes of the American people,' as reported by CNN.

He added: 'China has never and will never interfere in US presidential elections.'

Beijing has previously denied allegations of election interference and political influence made by several Western countries, including Australia, Canada, Britain, and the United States.

Trump declassifies intelligence information

Trump announced Thursday the immediate declassification of intelligence information related to US election infrastructure and its release, saying it reveals 'loopholes' that allow hacking, exploitation, and foreign interference, as well as China's 'illegal acquisition' of files of 220 million American voters, accusing Beijing of seeking to 'bring him down' in the 2020 election.

Trump accuses China of hacking voter data

Trump claimed that China had carried out over the years what is believed to be 'the largest hack of election data in history,' resulting in the 'illegal acquisition' of files of 220 million American voters.

He added that 'the data included names, addresses, phone numbers, party preferences, and other sensitive information' that he said could be used for voter registration and other practices he described as 'malicious.'

The US president considered the leak of this data an 'unprecedented nightmare for election security,' claiming that 'intelligence information showed that China assigned a unit to exploit the data to work on the project.'

Trump said the second set of documents indicates that individuals he described as the 'deep state' within US intelligence agencies worked to 'conceal information about the scale of the alleged Chinese interference' in elections and 'downplay its significance.'

Accusations of hiding information about Chinese interference

Trump accused election security officials of 'hiding information' about the Chinese hack, saying they did not inform him during his presidency nor brief Congress, to the best of his administration's knowledge.

He said these officials merely insisted that the 2020 election was 'the most secure in the country's history,' arguing that hiding what he called a 'massive security breach' is even more troubling in light of other information about Chinese actions targeting his first administration and his 2020 election campaign.

The US president said that reports from the CIA stated that 'the policy of the Chinese Communist Party, since mid-2018, was to exploit internal and external parties opposed to the US president, with the aim of reducing the votes he obtained and pushing him to resign or prevent his re-election.'

He added that China sought, according to the documents, to 'influence the results of the 2018 midterm elections, then the 2020 presidential election, and adopted in 2019 a strategy aimed at undermining Americans' confidence in their president.'