John and Scott have done a fine job exposing Tim Walz as a tyrant, poseur, snitch, and overall terrible governor. Steve thinks Walz is worse than California Gov. Gavin Newsom, but there’s more to it. As Daniel Greenfield notes, Walz is also a big fan of China:
Gov. Tim Walz was the highest ranking elected official with the broadest ties to China. And so it surprised no one when the US-China Peoples Friendship Association listed him as one of its speakers at the convention alongside notable Communist influence operation figures.
While the USCPFA represents itself as an alliance of ordinary citizens seeking better relations, it had started out as a Communist front group. Revolution magazine wrote that “Communists, members of the Revolutionary Union (and later the Revolutionary Communist Party) were instrumental in the formation of the earliest local Friendship Associations in 1971 and played a significant role in the creation of the national association and in the building of locals across the country.”
Walz’s student trips to China were subsidized by the Chinese government. According to a newspaper article at the time, Walz had the idea while working in the Communist country and a “friend helped contact the authorities and funding came through from the government.” The students on Walz’s trip enjoyed a “special status” that “let them go places other people can’t.” The students would then be taken to a university to teach them about the Chinese government. Walz however urged students however to “downplay their America-ness.” A story about Gwen Walz, the governor’s politically extremist wife, described them traveling to the Communist dictatorship “nearly every summer through 2003.”
As a private citizen, Walz benefited from China and as a congressman and a governor, he aided Communist China’s interests in the United States. The United States lived through four years of questions about Biden’s family connections to China. Kamala’s decision to pick Walz as her VP means those questions are not going away.
Last year China lost an advocate with the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, an apologist of the Communist regime since the 1970s and a key intermediary between China and the U.S. government. For 20 years, through three election cycles, Feinstein maintained a Chinese spy on her staff who even attended consular functions for the senator. With Feinstein departed and Biden out of the running, it’s easy to see who China favors in November. And of course, the regime that gave us Covid would never do anything to influence the outcome.
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