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