Just how much of a commie is Walz? Leading question. One that assumes facts not in evidence. Very unfair.
Or…is it?
Although Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has evinced totalitarian tendencies of his own, like the controls imposed by the Walz-led state government during the pandemic; and although he refrained from critical comment when his running mate, Kamala Harris, announced a plan for national price controls as the cure for government-created ills, not even a little berating her Nixonesque willingness to wreck market processes; and although despite his extensive knowledge of and interest in China, Walz’s known criticisms of the Chinese Communist Party steer clear of the most “extreme” indictments; and although Walz’s history of interactions with CCP officials raise legitimate cause for suspicion—I have been assuming, pending further revelations, that there is substantial daylight between Walz’s political proclivities and those of the CCP.
Less in doubt about Walz is a former student who accompanied him during one of the governor’s many trips to China. The man, “Shad,” says that Walz impressed him as being sympathetic with the Chinese government, not just China or the Chinese people.
Shad says he has submitted a report to the House Oversight Committee, which recently launched an investigation into Walz’s ties with China (“Man who says he accompanied Walz on trip to China calls VP candidate ‘Maoist to the core,’ ” Alpha News, August 17, 2024).
“It was almost a daily revelation of how much he adores the communist regime”….
After this first trip to China [in 1989], Walz founded a company that took students on summer trips to China. Walz said in a 2016 interview that he has traveled to China “about 30 times” as a teacher and member of Congress. The New York Post recently reported that Walz was a visiting fellow at a state-run university in China [more specifically, Macau] as recently as 2007.
Now, a former student who says he joined Walz on a 1995 trip to China is speaking to Alpha News about the experience. That student, Shad, asked that we not use his last name.
For several weeks, Walz and his group of students explored China together in the summer of 1995, Shad said. They saw Tiananmen Square, walked along the Great Wall of China, and traversed the country. However, the former student says he was struck by Walz’s adoration for China and its communist ideology.
“There was no doubt he was a true believer,” Shad said. “I’ve been trying to tell people this for 30 years. Nobody wanted to listen.
“At night, we’d go out, we’d walk the street fairs. We’d be buying souvenirs and Tim was always buying the little red book. He said he gave them as gifts…. I saw him buy at least a dozen on the trip,” he said.
Shad also cites Walz’s conduct as governor, including his setting up of a “snitch hotline in Minnesota” for ratting out people who violated some pandemic-related decree; that’s “straight out of the CCP.”
Congressional investigators don’t need Shad’s characterizations of Walz’s tenure as governor in order to take it into account themselves. Purchasing lots of copies of Mao’s Little Red Book as a souvenir is suggestive. But it doesn’t really by itself show that Walz was or is either a “Maoist” or a fan of the modern Chinese Communist Party. If Shad saw or heard more than this during his trip to indicate that Walz is a Maoist or pro-CCP, the Alpha News story does not report it.
Good to know, though, assuming that the recollection is accurate. And it would be good to hear from others who were in the student groups that Walz brought to China.
