Tim Walz’s ‘cozy’ relationship with Communist China probed:‘Americans should be deeply concerned’, Manchurian Candidate?

Aug. 16, 2024

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s “cozy” relationship with Communist China is being probed by a Congressional committee, The Post has learned.

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability are investigating Walz’s connection with government officials in the Asian adversary nation over nearly four decades.

In a letter to the FBI Friday, James Comer (R-Ky), chair of the committee, requested “documents and communications” related to the Minnesota governor’s connections with Chinese Communist Party officials and groups.

“The CCP has sought to destroy the United States through coordinated influence and infiltration campaigns that target every aspect of American life, including our own elected officials,” said Comer in a press statement.

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Tim Walz first traveled to China in 1989, during the government’s brutal crackdown on thousands of pro-democracy student protestors in Tiananmen Square.

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“Americans should be deeply concerned that Governor Walz, Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential running mate, has a longstanding and cozy relationship with China.”

The probe comes on the heels of a letter sent to the Pentagon Tuesday by Rep Jim Banks (R-In) demanding to know if Walz, a member of the Army National Guard during many of his China trips, had complied with security protocols for members of the military traveling to an “adversary nation.”

“Any individual traveling dozens of times to an adversary nation in a personal capacity while having access to classified information poses an obvious security risk,” the Indiana Republican said.

Walz, 60, first traveled to China in the spring of 1989 to teach high school, arriving when the People’s Liberation Army massacred pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.

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TIm Walz and his wife Gwen were so enamored of China that they decided to spend their honeymoon there in 1994, and a year later began a for-profit company to take American students on exchange programs to the Communist country.

Following his year in China volunteering for World Teach, a non-profit founded by former Harvard students, he and his wife Gwen returned on multiple occasions.

The couple spent their honeymoon in the country, and incorporated a Nebraska non-profit to send American high school students on educational exchanges to China.

While serving in Congress, Walz was a visiting fellow at Macau’s Polytechnic University, a state-run school, The Post revealed Thursday.

“While serving in Congress, Mr. Walz also served as a fellow at the Macau Polytechnic University, a Chinese institution that characterizes itself as having a ‘long held devotion to and love for the motherland,” Comer said.

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Tim Walz was a visiting fellow at the Macau Polytechnic Institute where he taught international relations while he was a member of Congress.Walz also spoke “alongside the President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries,” Comer claimed.

A year later, the Department of State exposed the entity as a “Beijing-based organization tasked with co-opting subnational governments” to “malignly influence state and local leaders to promote the People’s Republic of China’s global agenda.”

A spokesperson for Walz’s gubernatorial office told The Post he has long condemned human rights abuses in China, and attacked the country for siding with Russia in the Ukraine war.

“Republicans are twisting basic facts and desperately lying to distract from the Trump-Vance agenda: praising dictators, and sending American jobs to China,” said Teddy Tschann from Walz’s office.

“Vice President Harris and Governor Walz will ensure we win the competition with China, and will always stand up for our values and interests in the face of China’s threats.”

Tim Walz taught English in China in 1989-1990. “Chinese are such kind, generous, capable people. They just gave and gave and gave to me." He was interviewed by Star-Herald when he returned to the US.

As governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz has played up his state’s ties to China. In February 2021, Walz emphasized Minnesota’s history of hosting “numerous senior Chinese officials” in a letter of congratulations for a language school’s Chinese New Year celebration. The letter from Walz, who signed onto initiatives promoting human rights in China during his time in Congress, came two weeks after the State Department said that the Chinese Communist Party is carrying out genocide in Xinjiang. In March of 2024, he met Chinese consul general Zhao Jian at the MN state Capitol, where the two officials talked about strengthening U.S.-China exchanges.