Tim Walz on China - by Lily Ottinger - ChinaTalk

Kamala Harris just selected Minnesota’s governor Tim Walz as her running mate. He has a long history of engagement with China dating back to a year he spent teaching in Guangdong in 1989. Here’s our first reporter’s notebook on the topic. After graduating high school in 1982, he worked in manufacturing and joined the National Guard. He graduated from Chadron State College in 1989 and promptly moved to China. There, he taught high school classes on English and American history through the WorldTeach program. Specifically, he taught at the Foshan No. 1 High School directly north of Hong Kong. It’s an elite Guangdong school with a hundred-year history and a track record of sending students to top universities. It’s most remarkable for its Tibet Department founded in 1995. In 2002, it started a program taking boarding students from Tibet, and the school proudly boasts about how a number of those students became Tsinghua and PKU undergrads. Walz visited Tibet before returning to the USA, so

Kamala Harris just selected Minnesota’s governor Tim Walz as her running mate. He has a long history of engagement with China dating back to a year he spent teaching in Guangdong in 1989. Here’s our first reporter’s notebook on the topic. After graduating high school in 1982, he worked in manufacturing and joined the National Guard. He graduated from Chadron State College in 1989 and promptly moved to China. There, he taught high school classes on English and American history through the WorldTeach program. Specifically, he taught at the Foshan No. 1 High School directly north of Hong Kong. It