Kamala Harris and Tim Walz had nothing to say about China during the first press interview of their 2024 campaign.
Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, had nothing to say about China during the first press interview of their 2024 campaign.
The top foreign policy issue facing the United States was also largely ignored during Harris’ acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Harris made only a single reference to China during the speech, a vague pledge to ensure that “America, not China, wins the competition for the 21st Century.”
CNN’s failure to bring up China during the interview – at least during the roughly 18 minutes of footage the public has been allowed to see – is troubling given how much China has been in the news lately.
On the day of Harris’ interview, Reuters published a report based on patent office data requested by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party that showed China-based entities have filed hundreds of patents using American taxpayer-funded research, including research from American agencies expressly forbidden to share such information with China.
The patent issue is urgently relevant because the United States and China are currently negotiating the extension of a science and technology-sharing agreement that was first ratified in the 1970s. Critics are concerned China is benefiting far more from this agreement than the United States.
