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From Breitbart: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who debuted as Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign running mate on Tuesday, reportedly chose to get married on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and honeymooned in communist China.
Walz had a long history of educational work in China before entering American politics. Local media in Minnesota and his native Nebraska profiled his engagement with China several times prior to his political career and again when he ran for governor and won in 2018.
Multiple social media posts began circulating on Tuesday, after news that he was chosen as a vice-presidential ticket for the Democrats began spreading, appearing to show a newspaper article detailing Walz’s career as an educator in China. The Washington Post corroborated the chatter in an article on Wednesday, confirming that Walz initially traveled to China in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and lived there for a year before making dozens of trips back as part of student exchange programs. The Post quoted Walz telling the Nebraska Star-Herald in 1990 that the Chinese treated him “exceptionally well.”
Walz again captured local media attention when he married his wife, Gwen, on June 4, 1994, the fifth anniversary of the massacre.
“They went to China on their honeymoon,” the Post added.
In an article titled, “Walz has a long history with China, but he’s not ‘pro-China,'” the Washington Post slammed Republicans for criticizing Walz for his ties with China. The Post wrote that “Walz first visited China when he participated in a Harvard-run teach-abroad program in 1989 and spent a year teaching English and American history at Foshan No. 1 High School in the southeastern Chinese province of Guangdong.”
It was a very different time in China. “I was treated exceptionally well,” Walz told the Star-Herald in Nebraska upon his return in 1990. “There was no anti-American feeling whatsoever.”
But there were also concerning events. On June 4, 1989, joyful pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square turned deadly when Chinese authorities violently crushed the protests.
When Walz married fellow teacher Gwen Whipple five years later, they got married on June 4. “He wanted to have a date he’ll always remember,” his wife told a Nebraska newspaper at the time. They went to China on their honeymoon.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) taught in China in 1989, sparking an enduring interest in the country but also leading him to criticize its human rights abuses. https://t.co/17twofRXVg
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 7, 2024
Fox News host Jesse Watters called out Walz’s ties to China Tuesday evening, and played footage of Walz gushing over China.
New VP pick @Tim_Walz has deep Chinese ties. He’s been to China over 30 times and doesn’t think they’re our biggest rival. In fact, he says he’ll never be treated as well as he was in China. He even set up a program to take high school students to China every summer for nearly a… pic.twitter.com/UssXWcuOxD
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) August 7, 2024
Below is the video of Walz’s glowing remarks about China.
“I don’t fall into the category that China necessarily needs to be an adversarial relationship. I totally disagree…there’s many areas of cooperation that we can work on,” he declares.
Here’s the full video of @Tim_Walz talking about China policy. It’s from 2016.
“I don’t fall into the category that China necessarily needs to be an adversarial relationship. I totally disagree…there’s many areas of cooperation that we can work on.” pic.twitter.com/aY51kQUiI8
— Michael Sobolik (@michaelsobolik) August 6, 2024
Speaking of China, Walz promoted socialism while participating in a recent “White Dudes for Harris” event. Just last week, while participating in a virtual event, Walz declared, “Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values. One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz tells Harris supporters: “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
That’s a fairy tale. The history of socialism is a history of mass slaughter, oppression, poverty, dictatorship, starvation, censorship, and brutality. pic.twitter.com/R1b1SlRqIp
— Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) July 30, 2024
Walz has taught and honeymooned in China. He used to frequently visit #China in the early days of his career. He married on June 4, 1994 – the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre – to have a “date he’ll always remember.” 2/3 pic.twitter.com/3YfBOxFrIe
— Sarah Adams (@SarahAdams35763) August 7, 2024
As governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz has played up his state’s ties to China. In February 2021, Walz emphasized Minnesota’s history of hosting “numerous senior Chinese officials” in a letter of congratulations for a language school’s Chinese New Year celebration.
The letter from… pic.twitter.com/3ATFAwZQQQ
— Jimmy Quinn (@james_t_quinn) August 6, 2024
Notable: the Chinese government funded @Tim_Walz’s student exchange trips to China in the 90s.
By Walz’s own admission, it was unusual that the government “paid a large part of the cost.” pic.twitter.com/OrGsS8ubve
— Michael Sobolik (@michaelsobolik) August 6, 2024
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