Tom Cotton, a Republican senator, said Mr Walz owed an explanation "about his unusual, 35-year relationship with Communist China". MAGA War Room, an influential X account supporting Donald Trump, unearthed a 2016 video in which Mr Walz told the farming policy outlet Agri-Pulse that the US and China did not need to have an "adversarial relationship". But what does the record show? Republicans may want to weaponise Mr Walz's links to China, but it's pretty slim pickings.
fredag 9. august 2024
Walz has history with China - it's more hawkish than critics claim
Within hours of Tim Walz being declared winner of the Democratic "veepstakes", Republican accusations that he is pro-China came thick and fast. "Communist China is very happy," Donald Trump's former ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, said on Twitter/X. "No one is more pro-China than Marxist Walz."
Tom Cotton, a Republican senator, said Mr Walz owed an explanation "about his unusual, 35-year relationship with Communist China". MAGA War Room, an influential X account supporting Donald Trump, unearthed a 2016 video in which Mr Walz told the farming policy outlet Agri-Pulse that the US and China did not need to have an "adversarial relationship". But what does the record show? Republicans may want to weaponise Mr Walz's links to China, but it's pretty slim pickings.
Tom Cotton, a Republican senator, said Mr Walz owed an explanation "about his unusual, 35-year relationship with Communist China". MAGA War Room, an influential X account supporting Donald Trump, unearthed a 2016 video in which Mr Walz told the farming policy outlet Agri-Pulse that the US and China did not need to have an "adversarial relationship". But what does the record show? Republicans may want to weaponise Mr Walz's links to China, but it's pretty slim pickings.
