Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, boasted about Minnesota hosting several top Chinese leaders in a letter exposed by Fox News Digital.
The Minnesota International Chinese School featured Walz’s 2021 letter on its YouTube channel celebrating the school’s 10th anniversary of Chinese New Year.
“Minnesota has a long-standing relationship with the people of China,” Walz said in the letter.
“The state has promoted Minnesota’s relations with China and has hosted many senior Chinese leaders for decades. Thousands of Minnesotans claim ancestral ties to China, which has helped foster many ties between Minnesota and China.
“These relations are growing rapidly through the development of education, trade and investment opportunities between our two peoples,” he said, calling the school a “very important milestone” and “providing our language learners and future leaders with multiple language skills.” said before congratulating for “teaching the importance of speaking”. Languages and being global citizens.”
The letter came within 10 days of the recording of China’s Consul General in Chicago, Zhao Jian four minute greeting In Chinese for school, according to the school’s YouTube channel.
Walz’s relationship with Jianye has been under investigation in recent weeks after the House Oversight Committee revealed a meeting between Walz and Jianye to discuss “China-US relations and sub-national cooperation”.
Although the specifics of the meeting are unclear, a 2022 report The Biden administration’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) highlighted how US-based Chinese consuls like Walz “play an active role” in “foreign influence operations” on behalf of the CCP.
Walz’s decades-long relationship with China has come back to haunt him since Vice President Harris chose Walz to join her Democratic ticket as the vice presidential candidate.
He worked as a teacher in China for some time and in 1989 traveled to Guangdong for a teaching abroad program to teach English and American history.
Walz was initially believed to have made dozens of trips to China during his lifetime, but a campaign spokesman later tried to walk that number back and said he made about 15 trips to China, including his honeymoon in 1994. Was.
“I have lived in China and, as I said, I have been there about 30 times. , , , I don’t fall into the category that China necessarily needs an adversarial relationship. I completely disagree, and I think we need to stand firm on what they’re doing in the South China Sea, but there are many areas of cooperation that we can work on,” Walz previously told Agri -said in an interview with Pulse Communications.
He also defended the Chinese Communist system, saying during a 1991 school lesson that it means “everyone is equal, and everyone shares.”
“Doctors and construction workers make the same,” he added, According to Washington Free Beacon,
“The Chinese government and the place where they work provide housing and 14 kilograms, or about 30 pounds, of rice per month. They get food and shelter.”
In 1990, a local outlet quoted Walz as saying about his visit to China, “No matter how long I live, I will never be treated this well again. , , , They gave me more gifts than I could ever bring home. It was an excellent experience,” Walz said, adding that he was “treated exceptionally well.”
Fox News Digital recently reported that a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official had raised the alarm with colleagues about whether Harris’s decision to select Walz for the presidential ticket of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). How does it affect the activities being done with them? and local governments,” warning that Beijing could “target” them to influence U.S. policy.
“Walt (sic) found VP,” the message reads, redacting the identity of the sender.
“You all have no idea what the PRC is doing here to him and the local government, what does this have to do with it.”
The officer said, “This is a matter of serious intelligence. Target anyone believed to have access to the DC.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer wrote in a letter to Mayorkas on Tuesday that the committee is “releasing the above message as an example of communications in DHS’s possession in which DHS officials are concerned about the CCP’s targeting of politicians and their influence in the state.” Express concerns about influence operations at the local level – and in particular, concerns about the CCP’s influence operations as they relate to Governor Walz.
Walz has also faced scrutiny for his ties to a Minnesota-based medical research institute, a firm labeled as a “Chinese military company” by the Pentagon, and collaboration with Chinese officials with controversial ties to the CCP. Has a long track record of doing so.
In 2014, Walz welcomed a delegation from China to the institute that included Wang Yanling, vice governor of Henan province and Communist Party doctor.
Yanling is listed as having held several positions in the Chinese Communist Party over the course of several decades.
According to an archived version of the organization’s website, several members of the Chinese Communist Party sit on the board of directors of the Henan Cancer Institute.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris-Walz campaign.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman and Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
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