I also have to add- your post is odd given how many of those close to Trump have refused to be overtly critical of Putin or XI and given the fact of the some of Trump's advisors close relationships with people close to Putin (Michael Flynn for one).
Just a few weeks ago Trump, when asked, refused to say he wanted Ukraine to win in their war with Russia. He couldn't even say that. Heck, he couldn't even mention the tragedy of so many of their people being killed in their homes at the hands of Russia.
They say things like "we want to be friendly so we can talk with them and work with them" as if adults can't be critical but also negotiate. Reagan proved long ago you could be a tough talker with foreign countries and still negotiate and get things done. You didn't always have to kiss their backside.
but you are 100% fine with that.
But you are angry as hell about a VP candidate and former high school teacher who- along with hundreds of other teachers at the time back in 1989- visited China to set up learning opportunities with Americans and Chinese high school students- who grew fond of the Chinese students and people- but who was very critical of the Chinese government and leaders. That same man was a vocal opponent of Chinese leadership when he served in the House- so much so that other Republican House members went to him and worked with him given his knowledge of China.
It's a weird -strange-position you put yourself in.
Walz and Gavin Newsom and alot in common.
Here are Walz’s top seven connections to the CCP that demand explanation.
1. The CCP approved and even subsidized Walz’s student exchanges.
After his first trip to China in 1989, Walz returned to his teaching job in America and hung a “
Chinese banner” in his school office. By 1993, Walz was taking American students on visits to China where he told his students to “downplay their American-ness.”
When asked about why he was so interested in China so early on, Walz
stated “China was coming, and that’s the reason that I went.” According to
U.S. national security expert John Schindler, “no American would be allowed to run academic exchanges for a couple of decades, on the CCP’s dime, without [Ministry of State Security] approval. It just wouldn’t happen.”
Shockingly, Chinese authorities
reportedly covered “a large part of the cost” of the 1993 summer trip. The next year, Walz and the Chinese government jointly
sponsored scholarships for American students to visit China. Between 1989 and 2003, Walz travelled with hundreds of students to China.
Did Walz or his travel company, Education Travel Adventures Inc., receive any money from the Chinese government? His public financial disclosures do not go back far enough to know.
2. A CCP diplomat and other CCP government officials attended Walz’s gubernatorial inauguration in January 2019.
A translation from a
Chinese government source reveals that, “Acting Consul General Liu Jun congratulated Governor Waltz and expressed his expectation to strengthen cooperation with the new Minnesota government to jointly promote the friendly and cooperative relations between Minnesota and China.”
Why were CCP members at the inauguration of a Minnesota governor and would Chinese diplomats congratulate a sincere critic of China’s human rights abuses?
3. The CCP Diplomat left the Walz inauguration to meet with Walz cronies at Minnesota’s premier globalist non-governmental organization (NGO), Minnesota Global.
According the translated
Chinese government press release, “Acting Consul General Liu congratulated [Global Minnesota] on the successful holding of the China Theme Year event and said that the Consulate General looks forward to continuing to strengthen communication with [Global Minnesota] in the new year to promote friendly cooperation between Minnesota and China.”
Global Minnesota is close with Walz and has
sponsored at least one his foreign trips (to Finland). Last December, Walz
awarded a Global Minnesota nominee for a business award.
Global Minnesota is
affiliated with globalist entities like the United Nations and frequently invites Walz for speaking engagements (in
2020,
2021, and
2022).
4. Walz has close connections to a Twin Cities-based organization that houses an alleged secret CCP police station—one of only seven secret CCP police stations in the U.S.
In 2022, Minnesota Global
partnered with group called the Chinese American Association of Minnesota (CAAM) to send delegations to China.
CAAM has been
accused of housing a CCP intelligence agency “Service Center” (which is effectively a secret CCP police station) in Minnesota. The Daily Caller
reported:
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) United Front Work Department (UFWD) — which at least one U.S. government commission has
characterized as a “Chinese intelligence service” — operates so-called “Overseas Chinese Service Centers” (OCSCs) that are housed within various U.S.-based nonprofits. OCSCs were ostensibly set up to promote Chinese culture and assist Chinese citizens living abroad,
according to Chinese government records.
In April 2023, the Justice Department
busted an alleged CCP Ministry of Public Security outpost, which the DOJ called a “secret police station” used to “monitor and intimidate dissidents” and other critics of Beijing.
Why has Walz failed to shut down this Overseas Chinese Service Center operating out of Minnesota?
5. Then-Congressman Walz praised a CCP-backed event that he attended with CCP diplomats in 2018.
According the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Chicago, the
event Walz attended was “The Greatest Spirit: Embrace China—Beautiful Sichuan” hosted at Minnesota University’s Northrop Theater.
The event was sponsored by the CCP’s All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese (ACFROC). According to the Chinese government
website:
US Congressman Waltz commented that 30 years ago, he celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival for the first time in Foshan, Guangdong. As Mid-Autumn Festival stands out in Chinese culture as a special day of family reunion, it was his pleasure to enjoy this performance with everyone together. China and the US have a solid tradition of cultural exchanges, and hopefully both countries can maintain this tradition and amicable relations.
6. Less than one year into his first gubernatorial term, Walz was an honored guest speaker at multiple CCP-backed influence operation events in 2019.
Ten months after his inauguration, Walz
accepted a speaking gig from a CCP-backed event, joining the president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) on the short list of speakers.
Walz was invited to “speak about his experiences [in China] and Minnesota’s connections with China.” Walz also was a guest speaker at the
U.S. China Peoples Friendship Association convention in 2019 (alongside CPAFFC President Li Xaolin).
The CPAFFC is effectively a CCP “United Front” cutout that is accused of “directly and malignly influencing” state and local politicians in the U.S.,
according to the State Department. The CCP’s United Front influence operation is specifically tasked with “co-opting and neutralizing threats to the party’s rule and spreading its influence and propaganda overseas.” Beijing view United Front operation “magic weapon” to advance CCP objectives around the world.
Why is Walz so cozy with obvious CCP intelligence operatives and are they paying him for these speeches?
7. Walz has a long history of making outlandishly pro-CCP comments.
Walz has
said that “going [to China] was one of the best things I have ever done” and that if the Chinese “had the proper leadership, there are no limits to what they could accomplish.” He
claims that his teaching position Macau Polytechnic University “helped develop his knowledge of China’s unique international status.”
In 2011, Walz
said he developed “a great admiration for and a close connection with the Chinese people” after teaching there. He indirectly
praised the CCP’s brutal police when he said that China had “almost no crime.”
Walz has also
claimed the U.S. does not need to have an “adversarial relationship” with China and that “there was no anti-American feeling [in China] whatsoever.”
Notably, Walz’s gentle criticisms often ignore the aspect of the Chinese system responsible for the brutality: communism. And he recently compared
socialism to “neighborliness.” Walz seems to view human rights abuses as events that all countries commit from time to time and move on.
On the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre, Walz
said that “every nation has its dark periods that it must come to grips with.” And that “this Nation [the US] is no exception.” While this is true, Walz refers to events in American history that happened over a century ago with far less bloodshed.
Meanwhile, the CCP’s ongoing “
break their lineage, break their roots” persecution of ethnic minorities in China is rightly characterized as a crime against humanity and even a
genocide.
Why does Tim Walz seem to downplay the
undeniable bloodshed of communism and socialism?
Seamus Bruner is the author of Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life and Peter Schweizer’s Head of Research at the Government Accountability Institute. Follow him @SeamusBruner.
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