Wei-Chieh Wang (Ray)
"VOA: Let’s start with Taiwan’s elections. According to the Taiwanese government, China has been interfering in the election, including spreading disinformation and misinformation. Taiwanese prosecutors are investigating allegations that China bribed Taiwanese officials with travel and money to influence the election. When they met in San Francisco, President Biden told President Xi Jinping not to interfere with the Taiwan election. Is President Xi is ignoring his advice?
John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications: I can't confirm these individual reports of interference with the electoral process in Taiwan. We've been very clear that we respect Taiwan's democratic institutions. We respect the will of the people of Taiwan to make these sorts of decisions in terms of their own governance. And we don't want any other actor, be it a nation state or otherwise, to interfere in this election."
