Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is once again under fire for his declared and ongoing ties to China.
“I get along pretty well with China.”
— Tim Walzpic.twitter.com/0dMISE3e05
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) 8 August 2024
“Friendly” is an understatement. From Walz’s teaching career in Nebraska to today, the Minnesota governor has all the tendencies of a Manchurian Candidate. In this 2016 interview with Agri-Pulse, Walz calmly admits he has traveled to China over 30 times. Hear him talk about building a non-hostile relationship between America and the People’s Republic. This interview was given when he was a sitting member of Congress and a member of the House Agriculture Committee.
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Even the investigation into Walz’s service in the National Guard, first in Nebraska and then in Minnesota, has moved beyond his numerous cases of stolen valor. Walz served in the National Guard from 1981 to 2005, when he took early retirement to avoid deployment to Iraq. However, that period was marked not only by several trips to China, but also by a year of living and traveling around the country in 1989. This fit with his service in the National Guard, as the Free Beacon Documents.
Walz first traveled to China on a year-long teaching fellowship in 1989, months after the Chinese Communist Party massacred thousands of pro-democracy activists and student protesters in Tiananmen Square.
Despite the unrest in the country, Walz – then a 25-year-old National Guardsman – wrote in a letter to one of his former college professors that he was “treated like a king” in China.
In China, Walz said, he was paid twice as much as Chinese teachers, was given a decorated apartment with a color TV, and lived in the only air-conditioned dormitory on campus. He said parties were also thrown for him on his birthday and at Christmas.
“No matter how long I live, I will never be treated this well again,” he told the Times-Herald after returning home. “They gave me more gifts than I could take home. It was a great experience.” A newspaper photo showed Walz posing with one of his gifts, a paper fan with a poem by the widow of Communist Party-allied revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen.
This makes Walz’s stolen heroism even worse. Walz was literally being paid by a foreign country while supposedly serving in and being paid by the U.S. military. This is highly questionable and, if left unquestioned, could have even worse consequences.
Walz’s choice of date for his wedding to his wife Gwen is also embarrassing.
Walz and his wife, Gwen, celebrated their wedding on the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Gwen Walz said her husband wanted to have “a date he will always remember.” The Walzes spent their honeymoon in China. They also started a travel company, Educational Travel Adventures Inc., specializing in trips to China.
That’s like a neo-Nazi getting married on the anniversary of Kristallnacht. Seriously, who does that? Apparently Tim and Gwen Walz. One of Walz’s former students spoke to Minnesota’s Alpha News about his observations and experiences. Traveling with Walz.
Now a former student who accompanied Walz on a trip to China in 1995 is speaking to Alpha News about his experiences. The student, Shad, asked us not to apply his last name.
For several weeks in the summer of 1995, Walz and his group of students explored China together, Shad said. They saw Tiananmen Square, walked the Great Wall of China and crossed the country. But the former student said he was impressed by Walz’s admiration for China and its communist ideology.
“There was no doubt that he was a true believer,” Shad said. “I tried to tell people that for 30 years. Nobody would listen.”
“In the evenings we would go out and stroll around the street fairs. We would buy souvenirs and Tim would always buy the little red book. He said he gave them away… I saw him buy at least a dozen on the trip,” he said.
“It would be like buying copies of Mein Kampf in Germany,” the student told Alpha News.
I ask again: What kind of person does something like this? Certainly not someone who believes in America or its constitutional foundations and values. So why was this man allowed to continue serving in our armed forces, let alone be elected to FIVE terms in the U.S. Congress?
“If there is any doubt about what I am saying, just look at the policies his government has implemented, such as the worst abortion law in the country, the suppression of free speech and the riots,” Shad stressed. “He is a Maoist through and through and should not be underestimated.”
Shad drew attention to the Similarities between the messages of Walz and Kamala Harris – including phrases such as “a politics of joy” and “unburdened by what was” – and the propaganda material used by Mao.
“People need to keep their eyes open,” Shad said. “The spy hotline in Minnesota comes directly from the CCP. Tim Walz is a very smart guy. None of this is a coincidence.”
Republican lawmakers are digging deeper. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas was one of the first to ask about Walz’s long-standing relationship with communist China.
Tim Walz owes the American people an explanation for his unusual 35-year relationship with communist China.
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) 6 August 2024
Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on August 13 asking whether Walz had been reported and questioned about his trip to China given his security clearance as a member of the armed forces and a member of Congress.
New: @Jim_Banks sends a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin asking how @Tim_Walz“a high-ranking soldier of the Guard, presumably with secret security clearance,” traveled “regularly unofficially to China without causing alarm?”
Letter: pic.twitter.com/WEW5RMF9lP
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) 13 August 2024
On Friday, KY Rep. James Comer (R), chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, who informed him of their investigation into Walz’s ties to China. Comer wrote:
The Committee has heard that Governor Walz has long-standing ties to CCP-affiliated organizations and officials that make him vulnerable to the Party’s elite capture strategy, which seeks to co-opt influential figures from elite political, cultural, and academic circles to influence the United States to the benefit of the Communist regime and to the detriment of Americans. Reports of Governor Walz’s extensive contacts with CCP officials and organizations during his term in office raise questions about potential CCP influence on his decisions as Governor – and, if elected, as Vice President.
While it is encouraging that lawmakers are taking concrete steps, the fact that Walz was able to rise through the military ranks, become a five-term congressman, then a two-term governor, and now is being considered for vice president is appalling.
I demand answers regarding Tim Walz’s numerous private trips to China during his time in the National Guard. pic.twitter.com/HVUiYqaJwt
— Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) 16 August 2024
