Tiananmen Square Tim

The Disturbing Chinese Connections of Tim Walz

Quick! What date did Tiananmen Square happen?

In case your history needs refreshing, these were the student protests in China demanding freedom of speech and a free press back in 1989. Over the course of weeks, thousands of Chinese joined the students. Ground zero for these gargantuan protests was Tiananmen Square, the big plaza right in front of the Forbidden City in Beijing.

It was June 4, 1989 when the Chinese government cracked down on the riots, rolling in tanks and heavy equipment to squash the student uprisings and demands for freedom of speech. You may remember the iconic photo of the student protestor who faced down a tank in 1989.

The protestor is known only as Tank Man. We don’t know his real name or what happened to him. While Tank Man has disappeared from history, some who were there at the time said there were many “Tank Men” like him, just not caught on film.

If you’re Tim Walz, former governor of Minnesota and now aspiring to the office of Vice President, you know this date by heart. In fact, Tim and Gwen Walz picked June 4 for their wedding day because it was a day that the Walzes would always remember. Apparently, massacring people who ask for freedom of speech is dear to the Walz heart. Now he claims he remembers it because people stood up for their rights, but that’s a little like getting married on the anniversary of the Wounded Knee massacre because you like Indians. Doesn’t quite make sense.

Tim and Gwen honeymooned in China as well. Well, politicians are weird when it comes to honeymoons. Bernie Sanders honeymooned in Cuba and the Clintons honeymooned in Haiti, where legend has it they attended a voodoo ceremony.

But let’s take one weird lefty couple at a time. Tim and Gwen Walz have at the very least a conflicted relationship to China.

There are a lot of very close ties between Walz and China.

• We know from Representative James Comer that Tim Walz once organized a student trip to China, which China funded. How many foreign governments fund trips from your local high school?

• Tim and Gwen Walz ran a company that helped American students go to China to study. How many people do you know who run a business getting American kids to China?

• Tim Walz spent a year teaching English and American history in Guangdong Province, China.

• Tim Walz has taught at Macau Polytechnic University, a Chinese-run school, until at least 2007.  

• In fact, Walz has made over 30 trips to China, which is more than the average person. To borrow an adjective from the Democrats, it’s “weird.” He goes to China the way Biden goes to the beach in Delaware.

• Walz even claims to speak some Chinese which is amazing for a man who ridicules Ivy League education. How many downhome country boys do you know can shoot the breeze in Mandarin?

And when Walz was inaugurated as Governor of Minnesota, China sent a diplomat and some other government officials to attend the festivities. Now this is “really weird.” How many Chinese diplomats attend gubernatorial inaugurations in America? Especially for a goofy guy who just sort of stumbled into politics? If Walz is such a big human rights advocate and China critic, why would China sent out a planeload of VIPs to wish him well on getting to the Governor’s Mansion in Minnesota?

Tim Walz may have run afoul of the law, because Representative Jim Banks wants to investigate whether Walz was zipping around China while he was a senior ranking member of the Minnesota Army National Guard. If Walz was traveling in China at that time, he may have violated foreign travel reporting requirements. Military officers are not allowed to travel without prior authorization to our nation’s enemies. U.S. service members must report up the chain on such trips, particularly to places like China. It’s not clear if Walz did this or if he was debriefed when he returned. This kind of thing is against the law and military officers know this.

To make matters worse, Tim Walz is also a member of Minnesota Global, a nonprofit organization that leans so far left it should fall over. Minnesota Global is a down-home state-wide organization with a New World Order vibe. Or maybe it’s actually a New World Order organization with a down-home veneer. When the Chinese came to pay their respects to Walz when he became governor, they also zipped on over to pay their respects to Minnesota Global. So Minnesota Global is close to China, just like Walz is. It’s a happy little triangle.

Now here’s something to make you lose sleep. Minnesota Global is in cahoots with the Chinese American Association of Minnesota (CAAM). CAAM has built a clubhouse in Minnesota which it calls a “service center.” However, others claim that this service center is actually a secret police station and intelligence-gathering operation. There are seven such “service centers” in the United States, all of which are working through U.S.-based nonprofit organizations. On paper, they’re there to promote good will, promote Chinese culture and history, and assist Chinese citizens currently living in America. Even the Department of Justice (DOJ) is worried about these service centers. The DOJ calls these club houses “secret police stations” which are set up to make sure nobody speaks ill of China, particularly on human rights. This Overseas Chinese Service Center in Minneapolis is still operating and Walz has yet to do anything to close them down. In fact, his portrait is probably hanging on the wall.

Tim Walz has said on social media (that means “on the record”) that he doesn’t think the U.S. and China necessarily need to have an adversarial relationship. Richard Grenell, former U.S. ambassador to Germany and acting Director of National Intelligence said that China is probably very happy that Harris picked Walz for a running mate, and added, “No one is more pro-China than Marxist Walz.”

I didn’t call him Marxist Walz. Richard Grenell, Director of National Intelligence, called him Marxist Walz.

Now Marxist Walz says that he is pro human rights and his interest in China is to help them with their human rights violations. After all, what better person to lead the Chinese to better human rights protections than some yahoo coach from Minnesota who sort of fell face-forward into politics? Who better than an English-as-a-Second-Language exchange teacher to instruct the nation of China on its many social and political ills? The Walz story does not make sense unless Walz is working for China.

Some Democrats and leftists (but I repeat myself) think that having a guy in the White House who knows the culture of China and speaks some Chinese would be an asset.

However, despite Walz’s back-and-forth travels to China, he has not recently been publicly critical of their human rights failings. He did back a House resolution protesting human organ harvesting, but all he did was agree with something that somebody else wrote. On the whole, Marxist Walz tends to say goofy stuff about China. He said they have great potential, he admires them greatly, and he said China has “almost no crime,” and praises the way they enforce laws. Like with Tank Man.

The one thing that Walz will never rebuke is communism. He praises China, criticizes them lightly, but generally has nothing but the highest praise for them.

If you were to ask Walz, he would describe his view of China as “nuanced” rather than that the slobbering, rabid, fan-girl infatuation of Swiftie at a Taylor Swift meet-and-greet. When his students in China called him “foreign devil” and “big-nosed one,” he took it as kindness. He explained that was just a playful term of endearment. Let me assure you that the term “foreign devil” is a common insult in China and it’s not a term of endearment. He may know less about Chinese culture than he thinks.

So what’s going on? Even The New York Times (a former newspaper, as Andrew Klavan likes to say) has said that the relationship between Walz and China defies easy explanation. There are those who see something sinister in an American politician with such extensive ties to China and such a passionate love of the country. (Can you imagine a Democrat—any Democrat—who loves America the way Walz loves China?) Walz has never been ambassador to China or held a political office with a real role in foreign relations until this current Vice Presidential bid. MSNBC is not concerned at all about Walz’s Chinese connection at all, in fact, they welcome a guy who is totally into China sitting in the Executive Branch.

It’s so progressive. So joyful.

While Ricochet Cafe has no proof of anything with respect to Tim Walz’s love affair with China, we do have eyes and common sense. China and many foreign nations often try to cozy up with political figures. Sometimes they can influence them, sometimes they can bribe them, sometimes they blackmail them, and sometimes the U.S. guys outright sell out and work for the foreigners. Remember that fun couple, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg? They worked for the Soviet Union, although they weren’t exactly running for Vice President. Whether China is just befriending Walz or outright buying him off is a matter of degrees.

The fact is this: Marxist Walz is tight with China. And I suspect that China likes the idea of a Harris-Walz ticket because Walz is just one heartbeat away from the White House. And wouldn’t that be a fine thing for China to have their own guy in the White House?