Democrat Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz is coming under new scrutiny because of his stated and consistent ties with China. 

“I’m pretty friendly with China.”

— Tim Walzpic.twitter.com/0dMISE3e05

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 8, 2024

"Friendly" is an understatement. From Walz' teaching days in Nebraska until now, the Minnesota governor has all the leanings of a Manchurian Candidate. In this 2016 interview with Agri-Pulse, Walz calmly admits that he traveled to China over 30 times. Listen to how he speaks about America forging a non-adversarial relationship with the People's Republic. This interview was given while he was a sitting member of Congress and part of the House Agriculture Committee.

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Even the scrutiny of Walz' National Guard service, first in Nebraska and then Minnesota, has moved beyond his multiple instances of Stolen Valor. Walz served in the National Guard from 1981 to 2005, when he retired early to dodge going to Iraq. But this time frame was also marked not only by multiple trips to China, but living and traveling throughout the country for a year in 1989. This dovetailed with his National Guard service, as the Free Beacon documents.

Walz first traveled to China on a year-long teaching fellowship in 1989, months after the Chinese Communist Party slaughtered thousands of pro-democracy activists and student protesters in Tiananmen Square.

Despite the country's turmoil, Walz—a 25-year-old National Guardsman at the time—wrote in a letter to one of his former college professors that he was "being treated like a king" in China.

In China, Walz said he received a salary that was double the pay of Chinese teachers, was given a decorated apartment with a color TV, and had the only air-conditioned residence on campus. He said he was also thrown parties on his birthday and Christmas.

"No matter how long I live, I'll never be treated that well again," he told the Times-Herald after arriving home. "They gave me more gifts than I could bring home. It was an excellent experience." A newspaper photo showed Walz posing with one of his gifts, a paper fan inscribed with a poem by the widow of Communist Party-allied revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen.

This makes Walz' Stolen Valor even worse. Walz was literally being paid by a foreign country while supposedly serving and being paid by the United States military. This is highly questionable, and if he failed to be debriefed, could portend something even worse.

Walz' choice of the date of his marriage to his wife Gwen is also cringe-inducing.

Walz and his wife Gwen held their wedding on the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre—with Gwen Walz saying her husband "wanted to have a date he'll always remember." The Walzes spent their honeymoon in China. They also founded a travel company, Educational Travel Adventures Inc., which specialized in trips to China.

That's like a Neo-Nazi getting married on the anniversary of Kristallnacht. Seriously, who does this? Apparently, Tim and Gwen Walz. One of Walz' former students spoke with Minnesota's Alpha News about his observations and experiences traveling with Walz.

Now, a former student who says he joined Walz on a 1995 trip to China is speaking to Alpha News about the experience. That student, Shad, asked that we not use his last name.

For several weeks, Walz and his group of students explored China together in the summer of 1995, Shad said. They saw Tiananmen Square, walked along the Great Wall of China, and traversed the country. However, the former student says he was struck by Walz’s adoration for China and its communist ideology.

“There was no doubt he was a true believer,” Shad said. “I’ve been trying to tell people this for 30 years. Nobody wanted to listen.

“At night, we’d go out, we’d walk the street fairs. We’d be buying souvenirs and Tim was always buying the little red book. He said he gave them as gifts … I saw him buy at least a dozen on the trip,” he said.

“It would be like in Germany and buying copies of Mein Kampf,” the then student told Alpha news.

I ask again, what kind of person does this? Certainly not one who believes in America or its constitutional foundations and values. So, why was this man allowed to continue to serve in our armed forces, let alone be elected to FIVE terms in the U.S. Congress?

“If there was any doubt about what I’m saying just look at the policies enacted by his administration like the country’s worst abortion law, anti-free speech, the riots,” Shad pointed out. “He’s a Maoist to the core and should not be underestimated.”

Shad drew attention to the similarities between the messaging of Walz and Kamala Harris—including phrases like “the politics of joy” and “unburdened by what has been”—and the propaganda materials used by Mao.

“People need to have their eyes wide open,” Shad said. “The snitch hotline in Minnesota is straight out of CCP. Tim Walz is a very bright guy. None of this by accident."

Republican lawmakers are digging deeper. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton was one of the first to ask about Walz' longstanding relationship with Communist China.

Tim Walz owes the American people an explanation about his unusual, 35-year relationship with Communist China.

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) August 6, 2024

GOP Indiana Representative Jim Banks sent a letter on August 13 to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin about whether Walz reported and was debriefed on his foreign travel to China in light of his security clearance as a member of the armed services and as a Congress member.

New: @Jim_Banks sends letter to Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin questioning how @Tim_Walz, “a senior enlisted guardsman, presumably with a Secret security clearance,” travelled “to China regularly on unofficial business without raising red flags?”

Letter: pic.twitter.com/WEW5RMF9lP

— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) August 13, 2024

On Friday, KY Rep. James Comer (R), who chairs the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray alerting him of their investigation into Walz' ties to China. Comer wrote:

It has come to the Committee’s attention that Governor Walz has longstanding connections to CCP-connected entities and officials that make him susceptible to the Party’s strategy of elite capture, which seeks to co-opt influential figures in elite political, cultural, and academic circles to influence the United States to the benefit of the communist regime and the detriment of Americans. Reporting about Governor Walz’s extensive engagement with CCP officials and entities while serving in public office raises questions about possible CCP influence in his decision-making as governor—and, should he be elected, as vice president. 

While it is heartening that lawmakers are taking actionable steps, how Walz was even allowed to rise in military leadership, become a five-term Congressman, and then a two-term governor now in consideration for vice president is frightening.

I’m demanding answers on Tim Walz’s many personal trips to China during his time in the National Guard. pic.twitter.com/HVUiYqaJwt

— Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) August 16, 2024