Minnesota Governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has an unusual relationship with China.
“No matter how long I live, I don’t think I’ll ever be treated that well again… It was an amazing experience,” Waltz said. said When he returned from the first of several trips to China, Waltz claims that his Chinese hosts lavished him with “more gifts than he could ever bring home.”
Waltz and his supporters would have us believe that close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are not unusual. In fact, he hasHawkishHis media alliance is a vocal critic of the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights violations. sayIn China, while defending the communist regime, Occasional, subtle criticism: He’s known as “foul-mouthed but very helpful.”
According to Breitbart News, Waltz first visited China in 1989 under the auspices of the now-defunct Harvard University program WorldTeach. Waltz was so enthralled by the country that he and his wife traveled to China on their honeymoon after marrying on June 4, 1994, the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Waltz said: [wedding anniversary] According to his wife, it was “a date he’ll never forget.”
The student pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square ended in bloodshed on the night of June 3-4, 1989, when the Chinese Communist Party ordered a military crackdown on the protesters, and the People’s Liberation Army drove tanks into the square and opened fire on the crowds, killing between 1,500 and 4,000 protesters and wounding 10,000. The students had been demonstrating for more democracy and freedom of thought from the Chinese government. (Jacques Langevin/Getty Images)
Pro-democracy protesters watch as Communist regime tanks roll into Tiananmen Square during the military’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations on June 3-4, 1989. (Jacques Langevin/Getty Images)
Pro-democracy protesters are seen on Chang’an Avenue during the bloody military crackdown by the Chinese Communist Party on Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. (Peter Charlesworth/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Pro-democracy protesters gather after a military crackdown in Tiananmen Square on the night of June 3-4, 1989. (Jacques Langevin/Getty Images)
People carry a wounded woman during a military crackdown in Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989. (David Turnley/Getty Images)
Family members try to comfort a grieving mother after learning that her son was killed during the military crackdown at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. (David Turnley/Getty Images)
A lone Chinese man blocks a convoy of tanks approaching Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989, the day after the Tiananmen Square massacre. This brave, anonymous man became known to the world simply as “Tank Man.” (AP Photo/Jeff Widener)
The newlyweds took 60 students on their honeymoon, kicking off the first of many student exchange trips to Communist countries. The Waltzes founded a company, Education Travel Adventures Inc., to arrange trips to China. They ended up making more than 30 trips to China.
While Waltz’s last reported visit to China was in 2015, he continues to meet with Communist Party officials and appear at high-profile CCP-backed events. Waltz’s deep and enduring ties to China, including multiple ties to CCP intelligence fronts, raise national security concerns about the potential existence of a Harris-Waltz administration.
Below are seven key connections between Waltz and the Chinese Communist Party that require explanation.
1. The Chinese Communist Party Approved And more Received a subsidy Waltz student exchange.
After his first visit to China in 1989, Waltz returned to teaching in the United States andChina flag” hung in the school’s office. By 1993, Waltz was taking American students to China, where he told them to “downplay American.”
When asked why he became interested in China so early on, Waltz said: stated “I went because China was coming.” US National Security Expert “No American would be willing to accept running a decades-long academic exchange funded by the Chinese Communist Party,” said John Schindler. [Ministry of State Security] “There’s no way we’re going to get approval. It’s not going to happen.”
Surprisingly, the Chinese authorities Reportedly He paid “the majority of the costs” of the trip in the summer of 1993. The following year, Waltz and the Chinese government sponsor Scholarships for American students to visit China. Between 1989 and 2003, Waltz accompanied hundreds of students to China.
Did Waltz or his travel company, Education Travel Adventures, receive money from the Chinese government? His public financial information doesn’t go back far enough to know.
2. Chinese Communist Party diplomats and other Chinese Communist Party government officials attended Governor Walz’s inauguration in January 2019.
translation: Chinese government sources “Acting Consul General Liu Jun congratulated Governor Walz and expressed his hope to strengthen cooperation with the new Minnesota government to jointly promote friendly and cooperative relations between Minnesota and China,” the statement said.
Why would a Chinese Communist Party member attend the inauguration of the Minnesota governor and a Chinese diplomat congratulate a sincere critic of China’s human rights violations?
3. Chinese Communist Party diplomats left Walz’s inauguration to meet with Walz entourage at Minnesota Global, the state’s largest globalist non-governmental organization (NGO).
According to the translation Chinese Government Press Release“Acting Consul General Liu said, [Global Minnesota] He expressed gratitude for the success of the China Theme Year event and said the Consulate-General looks forward to further strengthening communication with China in the future. [Global Minnesota] We aim to promote friendly cooperation between Minnesota and China in the new year.”
Global Minnesota is close to Waltz. sponsor At least one trip abroad (Finland). Last December, Waltz Awarded Global Minnesota Business Awards nominee.
Global Minnesota Partnership They work with globalist organizations like the United Nations, who frequently invite Waltz to speak. 2020, 2021and 2022).
4. Waltz has close ties to an organization based in the Twin Cities that is said to be the home of the Chinese Communist Party’s secret police department. only Seven The Chinese Communist Party’s Secret Police Department in the United States
2022, Minnesota Global Partnered They worked with a group called the Chinese American Association of Minnesota (CAAM) to send a delegation to China.
CAAM is Accused Plans to set up a Chinese Communist Party intelligence “service center” in Minnesota (effectively a secret Chinese Communist Party police station) Daily Caller Reported:
The United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the subject of at least one U.S. government committee Characteristic As a “Chinese intelligence agency,” it operates what it calls “Overseas Chinese Service Centers” (OCSCs) housed within various U.S.-based non-profit organizations. OCSCs were ostensibly established to promote Chinese culture and assist Chinese living abroad, but According to In Chinese government records.
In April 2023, the Department of Justice Arrested The facility, believed to be the headquarters of China’s Communist Party’s Ministry of Public Security, has been called a “secret police station” by the Justice Department and is being used to “surveill and intimidate” “dissidents” and critics of Beijing.
Why couldn’t Walz shut down the Minnesota-based Overseas Chinese Service Center?
5. As a Congressman at the time, Walz praised a Chinese Communist Party-backed event he attended with Chinese Communist Party diplomats in 2018.
According to the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Chicago, event Waltz was speaking at “The Greatest Minds: Embrace China, Beautiful Sichuan” at the University of Minnesota’s Northrop Theater.
The event was organized by the Communist Party of China’s All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese (ACFROC), according to the Chinese government. Website:
Congressman Waltz said he first celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival in Foshan, Guangdong 30 years ago. The Mid-Autumn Festival stands out in Chinese culture as a special day for family reunions, so he was happy to be able to enjoy this performance with everyone. China and the United States have a strong tradition of cultural exchange, and he hopes the two countries can maintain this tradition and friendly relations.
6. In 2019, less than a year into his first term as governor, Walz was honored as the guest speaker at a Chinese Communist Party-backed influence event.
Ten months after taking office, Waltz approved He was invited to speak at an event backed by the Chinese Communist Party and was shortlisted as a speaker along with the chairman of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC).
Waltz was invited to “speak about his experiences.” [in China] Waltz also said: US-China People’s Friendship Association Conference 2019 (with CPAFFC Chairman Li Xiaolin).
The CPAFFC is effectively an offshoot of the Chinese Communist Party’s “united front” and is accused of “direct and malign influence” over state and local politicians in the United States. According to To the State Department. The CCP’s United Front influence operations are specifically tasked with “coopting and neutralizing threats to the Party’s rule, and spreading influence and propaganda overseas.” Beijing sees United Front operations as a “magic weapon” to advance the CCP’s aims around the world.
Why is Waltz, who apparently has close ties to Chinese Communist Party operatives, being paid for these speeches?
7. Waltz has a long history of making outlandish statements in support of the Chinese Communist Party.
Waltz is said “go [to China] “It was one of the best things I’ve ever done,” he said, and if China “has the right leadership, there’s no limit to what they can accomplish.” Claims He said his teaching position at the Macau Polytechnic University “helped me deepen my knowledge of China’s unique international position.”
2011, Waltz He said After teaching there, he developed “great respect and close ties with the Chinese people.” Praising the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal police He said there was “almost no crime” in China.
Waltz also Claimed The United States did not need to be in an “adversarial relationship” with China, and there was “no anti-American sentiment.” [in China] Not at all.”
Notably, Waltz’s gentle critique ignores the aspect of the Chinese system that is responsible for these atrocities: Communism, which he recently likened to socialism. Waltz seems to think that human rights violations are something that happens in every country from time to time and are then forgotten about.
On the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident, Waltz said “Every country has dark moments that it has to deal with,” and “this country [the US] “Not an exception” This is true, but Waltz is referring to a much less bloody event in American history that occurred more than a century ago.
Meanwhile, the CCP’s ongoing “Breaking their lineage, breaking their roots“The persecution of ethnic minorities in China is a crime against humanity. Genocide.
Why does Tim Waltz seem to downplay the undeniable bloodshed of communism and socialism?
This is a developing story.
Seamus Bruner is Control Garki: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Conspiracy to Control Your Life Peter Schweitzer, Research Director at the Government Accountability Institute. Follow him Seamus Brunner.
