Tim Walz has a longstanding and very close relationship with China. It deserves scrutiny for reasons of counterintelligence and national security.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
Trump was in a position where he needed to keep relations good
Shortly after finishing his undergraduate degree in his native Nebraska in 1989, Walz headed to China to teach in a high school in Guangdong Province north of Hong Kong. Asked later about his motivation for this, at a time when few Americans spent time in China, Walz
explained, “China was coming, and that’s the reason that I went.” Upon his return home, Walz and his wife established a company called Educational Travel Adventures centered on taking American students to China. Together, the couple visited China every summer until 2003, including spending their honeymoon there, much as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) strangely honeymooned in the Soviet Union. By his admission, Walz has visited the country about 30 times. He’s obviously a Sinophile, and he
speaks some Mandarin, too.
Many might ask, so what? Although Democrats insist that Walz had advocated human rights and the cause of Tibet, a bugbear with the communists in Beijing, his long history with China raises uncomfortable questions for anybody who understands how China works.
It was an odd choice to visit China in 1989, right as the regime was crushing dissent with tanks in the infamous Tiananmen Square massacre. This did nothing to diminish Walz’s admiration for Beijing. Upon his return from teaching in 1990, he told his
local newspaper, “I was treated exceptionally well. There was no anti-Americanism whatsoever.” He gushed that the police state had “almost no crime.” While Walz allowed that the regime’s massacre of students the year before was less than ideal, he concluded: “If they had the proper leadership, there are no limits on what they could accomplish. They are such kind, generous, and capable people.”
