Tim Walzs China ties are just too deep to ignore

Why would the Department of Homeland Security be so concerned about Tim Walz’s China ties that his name repeatedly comes up in internal communications and classified documents? According to Rep.James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, whistleblowers have revealed “serious concerns among DHS personnel regarding a longstanding connection between the Chinese Communist Party and Minnesota Governor Timothy James Walz.”  Those concerns could not be more obvious to me, a China hand of long-standing: Tim Walz has long had a special relationship with the CCP.It’s all there in his record: The initial approach, the flattery, the joint venture, the academic appointment, the paid trips and lectures. The whole process is called “elite capture.”  And it’s designed to bring foreigners of influence into China’s powerful orbit.  Walz’s troubling dealings with Beijing began in 1989-1990, where he taught in a school not far from where I did my own research in China. By his own account, local Party officials treated him like a visiting dignitary, toasting him at banquets, showering him with gifts — all the while filling his head with fairy tales about the New China. For years afterward, Walz would tell his students that “communism” in China meant that “everyone is the same and everyone shares. The doctor and the construction worker make the same.”China’s villagers would beg to differ. They complained to me that officials consumed more meat at a single banquet than they saw in their rice bowls in a month.Parroting official propaganda, Walz assured his students that “The Chinese government .

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provide[s] housing and 30 pounds of rice per month. The [Chinese] get [free] food and housing.”Now you understand why he and Kamala support rationing, since it worked so well in China.  Except it didn’t.So well-groomed was Walz by his Party associates that he even tried to justify the one-c...