by Liz Collin
A man who claims to have accompanied Tim Walz to communist China recounts his impressions of traveling there with the future vice presidential candidate.
“It was an almost daily revelation of how much he loved the communist regime,” the former student told Alpha News.
For more than a decade, Tim Walz has traveled to and from China. He first came to the country in 1989, teaching high school with a nonprofit program affiliated with Harvard University. On that first trip, Walz was visit to Hong Kong when the Tiananmen Square protests began in April. These protests ended in June when the communist government massacred protesters on June 3-4, 1989.
After the massacre, Walz took a train to Beijing to visit the square, According to to the New York Times.
After returning to the United States after his first trip, Walz told local newspapers how much he enjoyed his time in China. On June 4, 1994, Walz married Gwen Whipple on the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Gwen told a local newspaper that Walz “wanted to have a date he would always remember,” Wall Street Journal reportedAccording to local reports from the time, the couple spent their honeymoon in China.
After that first trip to China, Walz started a company that took college students on summer trips to China, Walz said in 2016. interview that he had traveled to China “about 30 times” as a teacher and member of Congress. The New York Post recently reported that Walz was still a visiting professor at a state university in China in 2007.
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 withhold his last name.
Walz and his group of students toured China together for several weeks in the summer of 1995, Shad said. They saw Tiananmen Square, walked along the Great Wall of China and crisscrossed the country. But the former student said he was struck by Walz’s adoration of China and its communist ideology.
“There was no doubt he was a true believer,” Shad said. “I tried to tell people that for 30 years. Nobody would listen.
“We would go out in the evenings, go to street fairs. We would buy souvenirs, and Tim would always buy a little red book. He said he gave them as gifts… I saw him buy at least a dozen on his travels,” he said.
“It would be like buying copies of Mein Kampf in Germany,” the student told Alpha News at the time.
“If anyone has any doubts about what I’m saying, look at the policies his administration has put in place, like the worst abortion law in the country, the bans on free speech, the riots,” Shad noted. “He’s a Maoist through and through, and he shouldn’t be taken lightly.”
Shad noticed similarities between the message of Walz and Kamala Harris — which included phrases like “politics of joy” and “unburdened by what has been” — and the propaganda materials used by Mao.
“People need to keep their eyes open,” Shad said. “The Minnesota whistleblower hotline comes straight from CCP. Tim Walz is a very smart guy. None of this is accidental.”
Now a two-term governor of Minnesota and the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Walz’s ties to China are coming under novel scrutiny. A number of public figures have begun to voice their concerns, many of them connected to Walz’s service in the National Guard.
Walz served in the National Guard for 24 years, first in the Nebraska National Guard and then in the Minnesota National Guard. The future governor joined the National Guard in 1981 and retired in 2005. As such, many of Walz’s trips to China came while he was an energetic member of the National Guard.
Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana Lately wrote to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to ask whether Walz had security clearance for his visits to the communist regime. Saying Walz had a “disturbing affinity for China,” Rep. Banks told the DOD that “any person traveling dozens of times to a hostile country in a personal capacity while having access to classified information is a clear security risk.”
On Friday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer he said launched an investigation into Walz’s “long-standing ties to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entities and officials.” Shad said he filed a report with Comer’s office on Saturday.
John R. Schindler, former senior intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer at the National Security Agency (NSA), he wrote Walz’s ties to China, saying, “It’s a given that Walz was vetted by the Ministry of State Security, the regime’s powerful secret police, because that’s how China operates. No American would be allowed to conduct academic exchanges for several decades, at CCP expense, without the MSS’s approval. That simply wouldn’t happen.
“Three decades ago, a young American who loved China and who also served part-time in the U.S. military would have been a tempting recruiting target for Chinese intelligence,” Schindler added.
More generally, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas said Walz “owes the American people an explanation for his extraordinary 35-year relationship with communist China.”
Walz’s staff did not respond to a request for comment. In response to Comer’s investigation, a spokesman he told the media: “Throughout his career, Governor Walz has stood up to the Chinese Communist Party, fought for human rights and democracy, and always put American jobs and manufacturing first. Republicans are distorting basic facts and desperately lying to distract from the Trump-Vance agenda: praising dictators and sending American jobs to China. Vice President Harris and Governor Walz will ensure that we win the competition with China and will always stand up for our values and interests in the face of threats from China.”
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Liz Collin has been a truth teller for 20 years as a multi-Emmy Award-winning reporter and anchor. Liz is originally from Worthington, Minnesota, and lives in the suburbs with her husband, son, and committed Labrador.
Photo “Tim Walz” by Gage Skidmore.CC BY-SA 2.0.
