The president’s allegations of foreign interference in the 2020 vote, which Beijing rejected Friday as “entirely fabricated,” come as the world’s two biggest economies are trying to improve ties.

“It doesn’t get bigger, because without free and fair elections, you don’t have a country,” Trump said earlier this week when previewing the address.

In his prime-time address on Thursday evening, Trump accused China of carrying out what he claimed was the “largest compromise of election data in history.”