VP candidates' views on China not widely known

While US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have used China as a bogeyman in campaign speeches, their running mates - Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine - are much less known when it comes to views about China.

Pence and Kaine squared off in Virginia on Tuesday night in the only vice-presidential debate of the campaign.

The two governors presented themselves as character witnesses for their running mates while also getting in jabs at the top of each others' tickets that at times overran attempts by the moderator to focus on the questions being asked.