Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz China Tourism Company According to one report, they were dissolved by the state of Nebraska in 1998 for failing to pay a $26 business operating tax.
The Minnesota governor's profit-oriented venture, Educational Travel Adventures, Inc., which catered to student groups wishing to travel to communist China, was shut down by the Nebraska Secretary of State in April 1998 for “nonpayment of business taxes.” Washington Free Beacon This information was given on Monday.
Co-founded by Walz and his wife Gwen, the company was first registered in Nebraska in 1995.
Despite the closure of his company, Walz continued to organize student tours to China, including at least two trips in 1998 and 2001, according to the outlet.
In 2002, Walz founded another organization of the same name in Minnesota, which he promoted during his 2006 campaign for Congress.
“Walz has established a small business called Educational Travel Adventures, Inc., through which he organizes annual educational trips to China for high school students,” one report reads. Archived press packet From Walz's congressional campaign, which states that the governor was part of “one of the first government-sanctioned groups of American teachers to teach in Chinese high schools.”
Reports indicate that Walz stopped leading student trips to China in 2003.
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In 2008, a year after Walz took office in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District, he reestablished Educational Travel Adventures in Nebraska after paying $235 in back taxes and interest, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
When the Nebraska-based company was once again in good standing, Walz promptly decided to dissolve it.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) raised concerns He provided information about Walz's travel company in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray last month.
Comer asked the FBI for information “about Chinese entities and officials with whom Governor Walz has engaged and partnered” as well as “any warnings or advice the FBI provided to Governor Walz about U.S. political figures being targeted or recruited for CCP influence operations.”
The oversight committee chairman also expressed concern that the Chinese Communist Party may have subsidized Educational Travel Adventures' trips to China.
Vice President Kamala Harris's running mate also has other ties to China.
He was a visiting fellow and lectured on international relations. State-run Macau Polytechnic University At least till 2007.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Indiana) has called on the Pentagon to investigate the affair and tell Congress whether Walz complied with foreign travel reporting requirements during his multiple trips to China — some of which occurred while Walz was a senior member of the Minnesota National Guard.
Walz married his wife on the fifth anniversary of the end of the deadly Tiananmen protests, and the couple spent our honeymoon in China,
“He wanted a date he would remember forever,” Gwen told the Scottsbluff Star-Herald in 1994.
The Harris campaign did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
