This is John Batcheter, a conversation with colleagues Steve Yates about Tim

Waltz, the nominee for the Vice Presidency on the Democratic ticket,

President Governor of Minnesota. Much made in the reporting of the how much time

Governor Wallace has spent in China over the years arriving as a 25-year-old to teach English in Guangdong just days before

the Tiananmen Square tragedy of 1989.

All these years later, what is to be gleaned from the fact that Mr. Walsh has had much experience

traveling to and from China. Also that he served on the human rights investigations

launched by the US Congress when he was a member of Congress after 2006 election.

Steve Yates comments on the human rights and on Tim Waltz and the Chinese comfort familiarity with Mr. Waltz and perhaps by

extension with someone who has less chance to travel to China over these last years but will again

if elected President, Vice President Harris.

Here's Steve Yates on Tim Walz and his comfort with China and vice versa.

What it means for diplomacy? More of this tonight.

Well, there is, although I think they believe they have some advantages and reasons for

comfort or confidence.

One of those reasons is that the vice presidential nominee Governor Wals has spent much of his adult life coming and going to China and there has been a lot of dialogue with him over the years to where they feel like they have a pretty reasonable gauge and some influence over how he thinks about dealing with China.

He's allowed to say tough things on human rights but always comes down on the

accommodating engagement side of the policy questions.