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By Nick Allen for Daily Mail
Tim Walz, Kamala Harris' running mate, has a deep affection for China after being one of the first government-sanctioned Americans to teach in the country.
Walz, 60, went to China straight after college through a program set up by Harvard University and taught in Guangdong province.
He would later honeymoon in China with his wife Gwen, bringing a group of 60 young people with them.
In the 1990s the couple set up a business which took high school students to China every summer for around a decade.
Walz has been to China dozens of times, including on trade missions, and has called his experiences there 'amazing'.
Walz, who speaks some Mandarin, said recently he did not accept that China had to be an 'adversary'.
He said: 'I've lived in China and, as I've said, I've been there about 30 times. If anyone tells you they're an expert on China they're probably not telling you the truth because it's a complex country.
'But it's critically important for us. I don't fall into the category that China necessarily needs to be an adversarial relationship, I totally disagree.'
Following his first trip to China, teaching at Foshan Number One High School, Walz told his local newspaper, the Alliance Star-Herald in Nebraska: 'No matter how long I live I'll never be treated that well again. They gave me more gifts than I could bring home. It was an excellent experience.'
He said 'China was coming, and that’s the reason that I went,' and expressed his admiration for how hard his Chinese students at Foshan No. 1 High School worked.
He said: 'If they had there are no limits on what they could accomplish. They are such kind, generous, capable people. They just gave and gave and gave to me. Going there was one of the best things I have ever done.'
As a teacher back in the United States, Walz had a Chinese banner in his office.
Source: Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13715483/Tim-Walzs-kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-China.html
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