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Tim Walz: “If the United States, in 1989, had taken a very different approach, if President Reagan had been in office, we would see…”

On the recordOctober 31, 2011
If the United States, in 1989, had taken a very different approach, if President Reagan had been in office, we would see a different China and we would have a different U.S.-China relationship.
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Tim Walz
Democratic · Minnesota

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Walz reflects on how U.S. policy could have changed China's trajectory.

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