Democratic vice-presidential hopeful visited country dozens of times and emerged as human rights advocate
Years before Kamala Harris chose Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate, the former high school geography teacher had a story that he liked to tell visitors from China. Walz, then a member of the US House of Representatives, would lecture his Chinese guests about the Wounded Knee Massacre, an 1890 slaughter of hundreds of Native Americans at the hands of US army soldiers at the Lakota people’s Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
He recalled being in Hong Kong at the time and having to decide whether to continue his journey across the border to Guangdong. “It was my belief . . . that the diplomacy was going to happen on many levels, certainly people to people, and the opportunity to be in a Chinese high school at that critical time seemed . . . really important,” Walz said.
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