Walz first visited China to teach English and US history in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and has been back more than 30 times.
, is drawing attention from US Republicans – and within China – for his long history with a country seen as Washington’s greatest economic and military rival.
The Harris-Walz campaign dismissed such criticism, noting Walz’s record of criticising Beijing’s human rights record. Unlike in the 1980s and ’90s, when Walz began his travels, the desire for a hard line on China is one of the few truly bipartisan sentiments in US politics at a time of deep divides between Democrats and Republicans.
“It is harder and harder to see exactly where there is supposed to be co-operation.
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