by Robert Schmad
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz used flattering language to describe Chinese communism during a high school social studies class in 1991, according to a newly discovered article in the Alliance Times-Herald newspaper in Nebraska.
Walz told the students that under communism, “everyone shares” and receives free food and housing from the government, according to refreshed newspaper fragment First reported by Washington Free Beacon. Just two years before the article was published, China’s communist government carried out the Tiananmen Square massacre of student pro-democracy activists, with the death toll ranging from several hundred to thousands, According to to the BBC.
“American students need to learn the horrifying truths of communism and the horrors this dangerous ideology has wrought over the past century,” Michael Sobolik, a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, told the Free Beacon. “Governor Walz should clarify his comments and share his impressions of communism in 2024.”
Sobolik said Walz gave students a “shockingly naive account of the Chinese
Between 1959 and 1961, during China’s transition to communism under Mao Zedong, the country recorded between 23 and 30 million excess deaths, with some unpublished Chinese materials putting the figure closer to 40 million deaths. According to to the 1999 research paper. Communist China also killed American soldiers during the Korean War and provided wide support to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
None of these details were included in Walz’s comments on China.
“It means that everyone is the same and everyone shares,” Walz told his students in the unearthed article, explaining what life was like under communism. Walz continued, touting how people in China were given free housing, paid no taxes in the slow 1970s and got 30 pounds of free food a month.
Waltz I traveled for the first time to China on a teaching scholarship in 1989, soon afterTiananmen Square massacre, according to many sources.
The Minnesota governor married his wife on June 4, 1994, the fifth anniversary of the massacre, the BBC reports. reportedWalz’s wife later said that he “wanted to have a date he would always remember.”
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee on August 16 opened investigation into Walz’s alleged ties to China and the Chinese Communist Party, according to a press release. The commission alleged that Walz’s expenses were paid for by the Chinese government during a 1993 trip to the country and raised concerns about his ties to Macau Polytechnic University, a Chinese university that claims to have a “long-standing devotion and love for the motherland.”
Shortly before becoming the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Walz he said that “one person’s socialism can be another person’s neighborhood.”
Harris’ campaign did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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Robert Schmad is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Tim Walz” by Governor Tim Walz.
