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Brahim Chnina's daughter has already been convicted of making false and slanderous accusations, while five other teenagers have been found guilty of taking part in a group preparing aggravated violence.

One Moldovan news website said the election campaign had been marred by Russia's "most slanderous, most violent and disruptive destabilisation campaign since the country's independence".

To many commenters online, Vance’s casual dismissal of the need to authenticate slanderous claims about an ethnic group evoked propaganda campaigns of the past.

It said that Britain had leveled a series of “groundless and slanderous” accusations of spying and cyberattacks against Beijing.

Chinese authorities in both the U.K. and Hong Kong have decried the charges, saying they were just the latest in a series of “groundless and slanderous” accusations that the British government has leveled against China.