(TibetanReview.net, Aug07’24) – The presumptive Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz has long-standing ties to China. However, he also has a solid record of being critical of China’s human rights record and of having met with the Dalai Lama as well.

US Vice-President and the Democratic Party candidate for President Kamala Harris’s newly announced running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, has long-standing ties to China, having spent a year there teaching US history, literature, and English from 1989 to 1990. He was among the first group of American teachers to travel to China after the Tiananmen Square massacre, later saying that he felt it was important to “make sure that story was tol...