by Frank Holmes, reporter
Democratic Vice Presidential candidate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz likes to talk about his favorite past times like coaching, eating, and traveling—but he’s got to spend some of his time in a new activity: explaining himself.
As Walz moves to accept the Democratic Party’s nomination as Kamala Harris’ running mate this week, he’ll do so already under investigation for highly concerning ties to America’s greatest strategic enemy: China.
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is looking into Gov. Walz’s “longstanding connections to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entities and officials.”
In a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray, the committee’s chairman, Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer runs down the record on the man who could be one heartbeat away from the presidency.
“In 1993, according to the Star-Herald, as a teacher, Mr. Walz organized a trip to the PRC for Alliance High School students, where costs were paid by the Chinese government. In 1994, Mr. Walz set up a private company named ‘Educational Travel Adventures, Inc.,’ which coordinated annual student trips to the PRC until 2003, and was led by Mr. Walz himself. The corporation was reportedly dissolved four days after he took congressional office in 2007,” Comer wrote to Wray.
Of course, Walz also took his honeymoon in China, as well.
In all, Wray took American kids on CCP-funded trips to Red China at least 30 times…and he kept on cashing Chinese paychecks.
Walz served as a fellow at the Macau Polytechnic University, which is run by China and brags about its “devotion to and love for the motherland.”
At the time, Walz had a lot of credit card debt.
Comer wants to know, Where did it go? Who paid it?
NEW: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says he's launching an investigation into Tim Walz's "longstanding connections to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entities and officials." pic.twitter.com/1Bk503iACT
— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) August 16, 2024
In 2019, Walz again popped up near a CCP entity called the “Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries” (CPAFFC).
In 2020, the State Department said this particular group of Walz’s Chinese friends are “a Beijing-based organization tasked with co-opting subnational governments,” like the state of Minnesota.
As recently as this March, Walz was shaking hands with CCP officials like Consul General Zhao Jian, and the two men discussed “China-U.S. relations and sub-national cooperation.”
“The CCP has sought to destroy the United States through coordinated influence and infiltration campaigns that target every aspect of American life, including our own elected officials. Americans should be deeply concerned that Governor Walz, Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential running mate, has a longstanding and cozy relationship with China,” said Comer.
To make matters worse, “FBI briefers recently informed the Committee that the Bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force investigates CCP activity that is similar to China’s engagement with Governor Walz.”
Some of the students Walz took with him over the last three decades say Walz seemed more interested in getting them to fit in with the Chinese than in helping teach American beliefs—like freedom of thought and expression—to his CCP hosts.
“Some of the local press accounts from the Midwest report that students were told by Walz, ‘When you go to China, downplay your Americanness,’ which is, is kind of odd, because if you’re having a cultural exchange, the purpose is to actually learn about the other culture,” investigative author Peter Schweizer, who has spent decades exposing Chinese efforts to buy American politicians, said during a recent appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
That is strange—very strange—and it’s only the tip of the iceberg.
“Whenever (Walz) talks about China, it’s with a lot of warmth. And whenever there are issues raised about its human rights situation, there’s always a well, you know, we have the same kind of thing. We have the same problems. You know, the most famous one he did in 2010 was talking about the Tiananmen Square Massacre, when 10,000 people were killed by the Chinese military. And he said, ‘Well, you know, we had Wounded Knee,’” a massacre of American Indians—in 1890!
That’s not exactly telling the Chinese how it is.
“It was a horrible situation. I’m not minimizing it, but to compare Wounded Knee with Tiananmen Square is kind of the ridiculous kind of comparisons that he tries to draw to sort of normalize CCP behavior,” Schweizer told Breitbart.
These economic and personal incentives linking Walz to the land of the Great Wall are so numerous, and so apparently heartfelt, that people need to know what’s going on before he becomes another CCP-linked VP.
“That’s unusual, and he needs to explain himself,” said investigative journalist Miranda Devine of the New York Post, who has extensively investigated Hunter and Joe Biden’s network of Chinese corruption.
“We already have one president residing in the White House—and he’s not doing much else—compromised by the Chinese Communist Party,” Devine told Fox News host Jesse Watters. “We don’t need another.”
She also found it “really concerning” that Walz “loves the way of the Chinese Communist Party,” such as setting up a snitch line for people to turn in their neighbors if they violated his harsh lockdowns during the COVID-19 era.
Miranda Devine discusses Tim Walz ties to China under investigation:
“He needs to explain himself, and that’s exactly what James Comer is demanding…” pic.twitter.com/gKrJAn4TrV— Gary D (@KMGGaryde) August 19, 2024
“It’s quite disgraceful that the Democratic Party doesn’t seem to find any problem with it, or the FBI,” she added.
Watters asked if Walz’s “honeymoon was recorded” as blackmail by CCP officials.
Ironically, that would reverse allegations that Democrats made about Russian officials supposedly videotaping President Donald Trump having sex or otherwise cavorting with Moscow hookers as part of a “honey trap” during one or more visits to that nation.
“The American people deserve to fully understand how deep Governor Walz’s relationship with China goes,” said Comer, who has led numerous investigations into the Chinese Communist Party—including its apparent bribery of Joe Biden through “business contacts” with his son, Hunter.
He asked the FBI to turn over all the information it has tying Gov. Walz to 13 CCP-linked groups by August 30.
That gives House Republicans just over two weeks to sort through the information, do their own investigation, and alert the public to what they find before early voting starts in first-in-the-nation Pennsylvania on September 16.
Will the word get out? Or will the Deep State and the legacy media team up to get another CCP asset over the finish line in November?