Man who says he accompanied Walz on trip to China says vice-presidential candidate is 'Maoist to the core'

A man who says he joined Tim Walz on a trip to Communist China is speaking out about his experience traveling the country with the future vice presidential nominee.

“It was almost a daily revelation of how much he adores the communist regime,” the former student told Alpha News.

For more than a decade, Tim Walz traveled there from China. Upon first arriving in the country in 1989, Walz taught at a high school in partnership with a nonprofit program affiliated with Harvard University. During this first trip, Walz was visiting Hong Kong when the Tiananmen Square protests began in April. These protests ended in June when the communist government massacred the protesters on June 3 and 4, 1989.

After the massacre, Walz took a train to Beijing to visit the square. seconds in the New York Times.

Upon returning to the United States after that first trip, Walz told local newspapers how much he enjoyed his time in China. On June 4, 1994, Walz married Gwen Whipple on the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Gwen told a local newspaper that Walz “wanted to have a date she'll always remember,” per the Wall Street Journal. informed. The couple spent their honeymoon in China, according to local reports at the time.

After that first trip to China, Walz started a company that took students on summer trips to China. Walz said in a 2016 interview who has traveled to China “about 30 times” as a professor and member of Congress. The New York Post recently informed that Walz was a visiting scholar at a state university in China as recently as 2007.

Now, a former student who says he joined Walz on a trip to China in 1995 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 the Great Wall of China and crossed the country. However, the former student says he was surprised by Walz's adoration of China and its communist ideology.

“There was no doubt he was a true believer,” Shad said. “I've been trying to tell people for 30 years. No one wanted to listen.

“At night, we went out, we walked around the fairs. We would be buying souvenirs and Tim would always buy the red book. He said he gave them away … I saw him buy at least a dozen during the trip,” she said.

“It would be like going to Germany and buying copies of Mein Kampf,” the student told Alpha News at the time.

“If there's any doubt about what I'm saying just look at the policies enacted by his administration like the worst abortion law in the country, the fight against free speech, the riots,” Shad noted. “He is a Maoist to the core and should not be underestimated.”

Shad called attention to the similarities between the messages of Walz and Kamala Harris—including phrases like “the politics of joy” and “discharged by what has been”—and the propaganda materials used by Mao.

“People need to keep their eyes open,” Shad said. “The snitch hotline in Minnesota is straight from the CCP. Tim Walz is a very bright guy. None of this by accident.”

Now a two-term governor of Minnesota and a Democratic vice presidential candidate, Walz's connections to China are coming under renewed scrutiny. Several public figures have begun to voice their concerns, and many of those concerns are related to Walz's service in the National Guard.

For 24 years, Walz served in the National Guard; first with the Nebraska National Guard, then with the Minnesota National Guard. The future governor joined the National Guard in 1981 and retired in 2005. As such, many of Walz's trips to China occurred while he was an active member of the National Guard.

Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana recently wrote to the US Department of Defense (DOD) to ask if Walz had a security clearance during his visits to the communist regime. Saying Walz had a “relative affinity for China,” Rep. Banks told the DOD that “Anyone who travels dozens of times to an adversary nation in a personal capacity while having access to classified information poses an obvious security risk.”

Friday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer he said was launching an investigation into Walz's “longstanding ties to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entities and officials.” Shad said he filed a report with Comer's office on Saturday.

John R. Schindler, former senior intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer at the National Security Agency (NSA), he wrote of Walz's ties to China, saying, “It's certain that Walz was vetted by the Ministry of State Security, the regime's powerful secret police, because that's how China works. No American would be allowed doing academic exchanges for a couple of decades, on the PCC dime, without the approval of the MSS It just wouldn't happen.

“Three decades ago, a young American with a fondness for China, who was also a part-time member of the US military, would have been a tempting recruitment target for Chinese intelligence,” Schindler added .

More generally, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas said Walz “owes the American people an explanation for his unusual 35-year relationship with Communist China.”

Walz's staff did not respond to a request for comment. In response to Comer's inquiry, a spokesperson he told the media: “Throughout his career, Governor Walz has stood up to the CCP, fought for human rights and democracy, and always put American jobs and industry first. Republicans are screwing up basic facts and lie desperately to distract from the Trump-Vance agenda: praising dictators and shipping American jobs to China.Vice President Harris and Governor Walz will make sure we win the competition with China and we will always defend our values ​​and interests in the face of China's threats.”

Liz Collin

Liz Collin has been telling the truth for 20 years as a reporter and multi-Emmy Award-winning anchor. Liz is a native of Worthington, Minnesota who lives in the suburbs with her husband, son, and loyal lab.