发表时间：2024.08.09     作者：Jingyi     来源：ShoelessCai     阅读：163

Tim Walz，Harris 的精选搭档。

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中国政府试图让人们能够有以下的 Idea，即外国的“黑手”，会对一些政治事件负责。评论是开玩笑的（the comment was made in jest），但确实指出了 Tim Walz 和中国的过去，其实对于他和中国都是很棘手的事情。

另一方面，明尼苏达监管者经常暖洋洋地替整个国家的人民发声，这位政府官员经常这样形容明尼苏达的民众，“友好、慷慨、能力强”。

然而同时，Walz 说到，“如果人们的领导力合适，他们做事将不会缚手缚脚”。这其实并非那种，能让中国开心的评论。

没有任何一方会在社交媒体通知此事，什么事呢？即 Walz 曾经有“生活上的改变”，即和达赖喇嘛吃午餐，其实达赖是西藏的精神领袖，还总是被中国政府排挤。

回到 2016 年，他（达赖）指出，“很多地方我们都可以合作”，然而，还阐述了美国的需求“坚定的立场”，该立场的站在中国对立面的，主要体现在他关于中国南海问题的理解。

中国任务海域大多数属于中国，希望美国远离那片海域。

Walz 此人是试图选举的、会在中国考察的总统候选人第一人，在老布什这么干之后。老布什于 1970 年访华。

评注：老布什也是最快访华的总统，任职 1 个月之后就对中国进行访问。老布什和小布什都很喜欢骑自行车！其他几位访华的总统：尼克松、福特、里根、老布什、克林顿、奥巴马。笔者查了下，Tim Walz 曾在中国教书！哇塞，竞选总统，在中国的工作经历还能拿来说事儿！

点击阅读《此前来访的7位美国总统都是谁？那些年，美国总统访华的故事》。

点击阅读《哈里斯的竞选搭档，曾在中国教书》。

这种背景能够见证他提供更多“嬉戏”的观点，关于全世界除美国之外第二大经济体。

然而，这也很可能，无论他于今年 11 月竞选成功与否，作为副总统，他会想拜登政府那样，支持中国政府的决策，在贸易、技术、台湾问题上，会更加严苛。

这暗示了，我们可能会在书店见证更多，中美关系之间的虚构的冲突。

原标题：Next China: Walz's tricky past

That’s a reference to the belief fostered by the Chinese government that foreign “black hands” are responsible for any political unrest. The comment was made in jest but it points to how Walz’s history with China may prove tricky for both him and Beijing.

On the one hand, the Minnesota governor has often spoken warmly about the nation’s people. He’s described them as “kind, generous, capable.”

Yet at the same time Walz said that if the people “had the proper leadership, there are no limits on what they could accomplish.” Those are not the kind of comments that would please the government in Beijing.

Neither would a post on social media that said Walz once had a “life-changing” lunch with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader exiled by China.

And back in 2016, he pointed to “many areas of cooperation that we can work on” yet also said the US needed to “stand firm” against China on its behavior in the South China Sea.

Beijing views most of that body of water as its own, and wants the US to stay out.

Walz is now the first person on a presidential ticket to have such extensive experience living in China since George H. W. Bush, the US ambassador in Beijing in the 1970s.

That kind of background could see him offer more nuanced insights on the world’s No. 2 economy than some other US political figures.

Yet it seems likely that if his ticket wins in November’s election, Walz as vice president would back a China strategy pretty similar to the Biden administration’s tough line on trade, technology, Taiwan and more.

That suggests the world would be in store for more of the kind of China-US frictions that we’ve seen in recent years.

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