Chinese embassy in US allege hacking after retweet of Trump's election claim

Disputed post accusing Democrats of cheating was retweeted within minutes by Chinese official account

The Chinese embassy in the US has said its Twitter account was hacked after it retweeted a baseless claim by Donald Trump accusing the Democrats of cheating in the election.

Late on Wednesday night in the US, Trump posted: If somebody cheated in the election, which the Democrats did, why wouldn't the election be immediately overturned? How can a country be run like this?"