Donald Trump alleges China of plotting his re-election failure

US President Donald Trump says China will do anything to make him lose his re-election bid.

Mr Trump has consequently stepped up his criticism of Beijing amid the coronavirus pandemic.

In a White House interview with journalists he said Beijing faced what he called a lot of possible consequence from the US for the outbreak.

He said China should have let the world know about the contagion much sooner.

Mr Trump himself is often accused of not doing enough to tackle the crisis.

The coronavirus has ravaged a formerly humming US economy that had been the president’s main selling point for his re-election campaign in November.