This is a series of CVS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. Tim Walts of Minnesota, twice elected governor.

Before that, serving in the House of Representatives from 2006 until he left to go

to Minnesota.

However, I learned from Josh Rogin writing global opinions from the Washington Post that Tim Wals has deep and very

sophisticated and historically memorable experiences in the People's Republic of China, not the least of which, not the most of which,

surprisingly, is Tiananmen Square itself, the massacre of 1989.

Josh, this is extremely helpful to understand Tim

Wals's background as a teacher.

You say that he taught high school in China,

and in Guangdong province, which I believe is where all of the

sophisticated electronics come that I'm now depending upon to talk to you. So what do we

know about his understanding of the People's Republic of China, especially these last years since she

and ping turned strong man? Good evening to you.

Well, good evening, John. Well, when Tim Walls decided at age 25 to go spend some time teaching

English inside China at high school, he couldn't have known that just days before he was to get there while he was

winning in Hong Kong preparing to go to Guangdong, the Tiananmen square massacre would

happen and you know this was a historic time in China's path really the moment that China took

a sharp turn away from its pattern of reform and opening up and down the path that has led it to where it is now, which is under

the rule of the repressive authoritarian and aggressive regime of Chinese president

Xi Jinping, and he just happened to be there and

although a lot of people at the time might have decided that wasn't the best time in

China he decided he concluded the exact opposite and it was the beginning of his

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