Dem veep pick Tim Walz has fawned over his time living in China, saying he will “never” be treated as well as when he was in the Communist country and hailing the repressive regime’s lack of crime.
The Minnesota governor spent 1989 to 1990 teaching school in China as a part of the WorldTeach program based out of Harvard University — one of the first Americans accepted into the program, according to the Star-Herald.
“No matter how long I live, I will never be treated that well again,” Walz, 60, recounted in 1990 after teaching American history, culture and English in Foshan in southern China.
“They gave me more gifts than I could bring home. It was an excellent experience,” Walz said, stressing that he was “treated exceptionally well.
“There was no anti-American feeling whatsoever. America is ‘it’ in the eyes of the Chinese. Many of the students want to come to America to study. They don’t feel there is much opportunity for them in China.”
He went on to give a glowing review of the city where he lived, saying there was “almost no crime” and that “never once did he feel threatened.”
Republicans quickly began pummeling Walz over his comments.
“No one is more pro-China than Marxist Walz,” Richard Grenell, former acting director of National Intelligence under the Trump administration, wrote on X.
James Hutton, a former assistant secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs, also griped on X, “Tim Walz doesn’t see China as a problem. --->READ MORE HERE
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is facing scrutiny from Republicans over what they say are pro-China remarks, including an interview in which the Democratic vice presidential nominee said he does not agree with the idea there needs to be an adversarial relationship with the communist government.
Walz worked briefly in China as a teacher, traveling to Guangdong in 1989 for a teach abroad program to teach English and American history. He later became a member of Congress and governor of Minnesota.
The Wall Street Journal, citing local media reports, reported that one trip to China doubled as his honeymoon in 1994, and he planned his wedding date to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
In an interview from 2016, Walz said he believed there was potential for a strong relationship between China and the U.S., although he also said China needed to play "by the rules" on human rights and the environment.
"I've lived in China and, as I've said, I've been there about 30 times. ... I don't fall into the category that China necessarily needs to be an adversarial relationship. I totally disagree, and I think we need to stand firm on what they're doing in the South China Sea, but there's many areas of cooperation we can work on," he said in the interview with Agri-Pulse Communications.
In the interview, he noted he was on the congressional executive commission on China, a bipartisan commission that focuses on human rights. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories:
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