Paranoia in White House bedevils bilateral relations

On Saturday, United States President Donald Trump called on "all of the fools" focusing on Russia to "start also looking in another direction, China".

On Sunday, White House national security adviser John Bolton told ABC's This Week that he could say "definitively" there is a "national security concern about Chinese meddling, Iranian meddling, and North Korean meddling" in the 2018 midterm elections.

This can't be coincidence. Quite likely it is a clumsy attempt by the White House to distract public attention from Robert Mueller's unyielding probe into ties between Trump's campaign and Russian officials during the 2016 US general elections.