Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who made his debut as the running mate for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign on Tuesday, reportedly chose to get married on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and honeymoon in Communist China.
Waltz has been involved in education activities in China for many years, even before entering U.S. politics. Local media in Minnesota and his home state of Nebraska reported on his ties to China several times before he began his political career, and again when he ran for governor in 2018 and was elected.
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After news began to spread that Waltz had been selected as the Democratic vice presidential nominee, several social media posts began circulating on Tuesday that appeared to show newspaper articles detailing Waltz’s work as an educator in China. The Washington Post Supported The story broke the rumor on Wednesday, confirming that Waltz first visited China in 1989, during the Tiananmen Square protests, lived there for a year and has since returned to China dozens of times as part of an exchange program. post “I’m not going to lie,” Walz said in Nebraska. Star Herald In 1990, he said the Chinese had “treated him very well.”
On June 4, 1994, the fifth anniversary of the massacre, Waltz married his wife, Gwen, and again attracted local media attention.
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Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz appears with Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Aug. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Luke)
The Tiananmen Square incident occurred in 1989 after several days of protests by Chinese students who were inspired by the collapse of the Soviet Union and demanded an end to communism in their country. They occupied the eponymous square in Beijing and declared “Goddess of DemocracyThe iconic statue of the Statue of Liberty at the People’s Liberation Army Square. The protests were peaceful, but the Communist Party responded with extraordinary violence. The Chinese military stormed the square, running over protesters with tanks and killing them indiscriminately.
“Tanks were driving into crowds at high speed, literally crushing them like hamburgers,” said Stephen Mosher, director of the Population Institute and one of the first Western scholars allowed into China. Breitbart News Tonight The 30th anniversary of the massacre was marked in 2019. “Afterwards, we had to bulldoze the roads to clear away the bodies of those who had been killed when tanks ran over them. The massacre was horrific.”
Mosher recalled that Chinese troops also entered hospitals, killing people who were surviving and receiving treatment on the streets.
“The wounded were evacuated, including those who were on life support and should not have been taken off their drips, and all were taken away in military trucks and never heard from again,” he explained.
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The full number of people killed in the incident is unknown. Estimation According to documents unearthed in 2017, around 10,000 people were killed during that time.
“He wanted a date he’d remember forever.” The Washington Post Gwen Waltz spoke out about her husband’s choice of wedding date at the time, admitting that he’d chosen the anniversary intentionally.
“On their first date (at the only movie theater in town, then at Hardee’s), she refused to kiss him. He said they would marry each other someday. Their honeymoon was a trip to China with their 60 children,” the Minnesota newspaper reported. Star Tribune I got it. 2018.
A year later, in a profile of the state’s new first lady, Star Tribune report“They went on a honeymoon trip to China that they organised for a few dozen students. Because there was an odd number of students, the couples didn’t even sleep in the same room.”
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Waltz first went to China Now abolished Harvard University’s WorldTeach program. The Chinese government approved Waltz’s congressional biography notes that the trip showed the party found nothing questionable about the programs he ran. He and his wife later founded a travel company called Educational Travel Adventures and returned to the trip regularly. South China Morning Post Confirmed He said this week, citing the National Governors Association.
The governor spoke about being in China in 1989 during the genocide’s aftermath, telling reporters in 2014 that he felt it was “more important than ever” to be there after the massacre.
“There were a lot of decisions being made by many of my colleagues to either go home or not go any further,” he told Voice of America. “I felt it was more important than ever to go, to make sure this story was told and to let the Chinese people know that we are there and we are with them.”
Tim Waltz of Boston, US Vice President of State for Foreign Affairs, 1989-1990, China Guangdong Textbook, Follow Waltz on Chinese power and democracy, 2014, received the message from the US Radio that after the Tiananmen assault, many other countries got involved to ensure China’s security, but now it is recognized in China that this is “the Chinese people know us and we are together”. pic.twitter.com/DSwB5CdH3Z
— 美国之音中文网 (@VOA Chinese) August 6, 2024
One of Waltz’s final trips to China Occurred In 2015, he was part of a congressional delegation led by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to visit Beijing and occupied Tibet. Upon returning from the visit, then-Rep. Waltz (D-Minn.) said: Claimed He said he was engaged in a “healthy dialogue” with Communist officials and suggested he was ready to discuss the ongoing colonization of Tibet and the exile of the Dalai Lama, the highest authority in Tibetan Buddhism, after the Communist Party has violently repressed it for decades.
“As we all know, China’s modernization over the last 25 years has undoubtedly seen remarkable progress in infrastructure, improved quality of life, access to clean water, access to health services — those things are undeniable,” Waltz said at the time.
Waltz added that when asked about genocidal abuses against Tibetans, Communist officials “naturally” brought up “the situation of Native Americans” in the United States.
At the time of writing, the Chinese government has largely refrained from commenting on Waltz’s position in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
“The US presidential election is an internal matter of the US. We have no comment on it,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said on Wednesday.
English Global TimesThe paper, which often acts as a government mouthpiece on US domestic issues, had not published any articles about Harris’ choice of Waltz as of press time. Posts Positive coverage has described Waltz as a vice presidential candidate with broad appeal to a wide range of voters, but has made no mention of his legendary record on China. China Daily Explained He described Waltz as “down-to-earth and popular” but said little about his background and nothing about his relationship with China.
