This is notable — and a key marker for those who say Trump’s actions help China: The Chinese embassy in the US has retweeted Trump’s fake claim of election fraud. For autocrats, Trump is helping delegitimize democracy and eroding US standing. Putin has repeated his arguments too. 
2. It’ll be interesting to see if Chinese and Russian officials and media outlets also start amplifying the statements of Republican officials, including members of Congress, who support Trump’s efforts at subverting the election. Read @tripgabriel on GOP: nytimes.com/2020/12/09/us/…
3. The Chinese government has aggressively used official Twitter accounts to spread propaganda & disinformation, including the accounts of diplomats & foreign missions. The messages are boosted by networks of human users & bots. Here's our story on that: nytimes.com/2020/06/08/tec…
4. The embassy has deleted the retweet of Trump from @ChineseEmbinUS. It retweeted Trump's attack on the election before 1 pm EST and deleted the retweet later this afternoon, after the post got attention. People have screencaps, including @tianyuf.
https://twitter.com/tianyuf/status/1336731643780861952?s=20
5. The Chinese Embassy posted this tweet at 11:20 pm EST, more than 10 hours after its account @ChineseEmbinUS retweeted the fake election fraud claim by @realDonaldTrump.
6. The Chinese embassy might have deleted the tweet after officials there or in Beijing realized retweeting Trump's election claims could complicate ties w/ the Biden administration. Here's our earlier story on how Trump has benefited China over 4 years: nytimes.com/2020/06/18/us/…
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