Tim Walz's long history with China

Washington — Thirty-five years before Vice President Kamala Harris named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, he was on his way to teach high school in mainland China as a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square took place in 1989.  

"As the events were unfolding, several of us went in," Walz said at a 2014 congressional hearing marking 25 years since the massacre. 

He recalled meeting a crowd of people in a Hong Kong train station who were "very angry that we would still go after what had happened." But Walz, who became fascinated with China during his youth, saw it as an opportunity.