By Iain Marlow Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has connections to China dating back decades that could help inform Kamala Harris’s approach to the world’s second-biggest economy, but may also spell trouble with leaders in Beijing and Republicans back home.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has connections to China dating back decades that could help inform Kamala Harris’s approach to the world’s second-biggest economy, but may also spell trouble with leaders in Beijing and Republicans back home.
Walz got married on the fifth anniversary of the deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square military crackdown, with his wife Gwen telling a local newspaper “he wanted to have a date he’ll always remember.” He’s also posted on social media that he had a “life-changing” lunch with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader exiled by China.
With Walz appearing prominently on the national political scene for the first time on Tuesday, many on social media began poring over a long record of comments on China, some of them decades old. “I think the idea was, with a free market economy, we’d see a more opening of the Chinese grip on—on social life and on human rights,” Walz said in a congressional hearing in 2016. “That simply has not occurred.”
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