Vance and Walz tackle China, trade war and abortion in the US VP election debate – as it happened

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The vice presidential debate between the US Senator J.D. Vance from the governor of Ohio and Minnesota Tim Walz on Tuesday rarely strayed beyond domestic issues after an opening question about the Israel-Iran conflict — but when it did, China took center stage.
Vance, the VP pick for Donald Trumpdid his best to restrain his boss’s opponent, the vice president Kamala Harristo the policies of the current American president Joe Biden. However, he made an exception when he praised Biden for continuing “some of the Trump tariffs,” and characterized Harris as “walking away from Joe Biden’s record” on this issue. He also denounced Biden’s environmental policies to pump money into Chinese-made solar panels.

Walz, who spent time in China in the 1980s and 1990s, first as a teacher and then as a student exchange organizer, defended his time there as helping him “understand the world,” and suggested that his experiences left him with a more negative view had given. from Chinese President Xi Jinping than from Trump, who, according to him, has also ‘started a trade war that he will ultimately lose’.

After an opening in which both men broadly sided with Israel in the current Middle East conflicts with Gaza and Iran, the two diverged, especially on their key issues. For Walz, that was abortion, an issue in which Vance admitted that the Republican Party had lost the trust of Americans; for Vance it was immigration, characterizing Harris as weak on the U.S. border with Mexico. They also debated crime, energy sources, childcare and health care, among other topics.

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Reporting by Mark Magnier in New York and Igor Patrick and Khushboo Razdan in Washington

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