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Amaryllis

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Wed Aug 7, 2024, 01:07 PM Aug 2024

Walz brings extensive China experience to Democratic ticket - important and very helpful

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/walz-china-harris-vp-pick-close-ties-criticism-beijing-gop-rcna165494

THe whole article well worth reading. Provides much insight into Walz. He will be excellent on foreign policy.

HONG KONG — Before being named Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz’s career included extensive experience with China — a relationship that drew immediate GOP criticism and became a hot topic of discussion on Chinese social media Wednesday.

Walz’s stance on China, a country he says he has been to about 30 times, appears to be broadly in line with that of the Biden-Harris administration, which is “managing competition” with the world’s second-largest economy while also looking for opportunities to cooperate on issues of global import such as climate change.

While Walz has been critical of the ruling Communist Party, as well as of China’s trade practices and growing aggression in the South China Sea, he says there are “many areas of cooperation that we can work on.”

“I don’t fall into the category that China necessarily needs to be an adversarial relationship,” he said in a video interview in 2016.
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"Through the company they set up, Educational Travel Adventures, Walz and his wife, Gwen, took groups of high school students to China every summer for years, even spending their honeymoon there.""
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Walz brings extensive China experience to Democratic ticket - important and very helpful (Original Post) Amaryllis Aug 2024 OP
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