Explainer: Tim Walz’s long track record in China  

FILE - Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the press room at the State Capitol, on March 13, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn. FILE - House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, with House Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Phil Roe, Senate Veterans' Affairs Chairman Sen. Johnny Isakson, and other committee members, listen to Rep. Tim Walz, on Capitol Hill, June 21, 2017.

From teaching at a high school in China to his experience serving on a key congressional committee that focuses on relations between Beijing and Washington, Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz has a decades-long connection with China dating back to the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.