China is taking notice of Kamala Harris’s choice for vice president, Tim Walz, who lives halfway around the globe.
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Chinese social media users were talking about Mr. Walz’s 1989 year-long teaching stint in the southeast province of Guangdong, which was a popular topic on Weibo with 12 million views.
Afterwards, he went on a honeymoon in the nation with his spouse, fellow educator Gwen Whipple.
At one point, Mr. Walz called his choice to become a teacher in China “one of the best things I’ve ever done”.
Before entering politics, the 60-year-old governor of Minnesota coached football and taught history.
He moved to China to teach English and American history at a high school right out of college.
Those making comments on Chinese social media were aware that it occurred in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Chinese tanks entered Beijing’s central square on June 4 of that year, after hundreds of thousands of people had assembled there calling for democratic reforms. It is still unknown how many people killed in the carnage that marked the conclusion of the day. The number of fatalities has been estimated to be around 10,000.