Xi’s Disgust: Take Kamala Harris’s Ties to China Seriously

Does Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s long-standing love affair with China allow him to criticize the Chinese government’s mistreatment of his people, while simultaneously facilitating the mistreatment of our people?

Since Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris chose Walz as her running mate, his relationship with the self-proclaimed “Middle Kingdom” has come under feverish, feverish, even fiery criticism.

“Communist China is very happy with @GovTimWalz as Kamala’s VP pick,” Richard Grennell, a former Trump acting director of national intelligence, opined, for example. “No one is more pro-China than Marxist Walz.”

According to rising Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), “Tim Walz owes the American people an explanation about his unusual 35-year relationship with Communist China.”

“(A) young American with a penchant for China who was also a part-time member of the U.S. military would have been a tempting recruiting target for Chinese intelligence,” noted a former National Security Agency counterintelligence officer.

“Walz is dangerous,” warned James Hutton, the talented former Trump VA official. The Minnesota governor “will have to learn the truth about the brutal nature of the dictatorship in Beijing. Communist tyranny may not be a bad thing for Walz, but the rest of the world knows it.”

What are the facts?

First, Walz did indeed go to China to teach, immediately after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.

Returning, he said enthusiastically, “No matter how long I live, I’ll never be treated so well again. They gave me more presents than I could take home.”

He claimed there was “no anti-American feeling at all,” although he advised students he later took to China to downplay their “Americanness.”

Walz liked that the totalitarian state had “almost no crime.”

He got married on the anniversary of Tiananmen Day, not wanting to forget the date, and then went on his honeymoon to China.

Walz now disagrees that “China must necessarily have an adversarial relationship” with America – the Chinese foreign minister says we are headed for inevitable “confrontation and conflict” unless America stands up.

Walz’s ties to China are, in short, strange.

That said, Walz admitted that Tiananmen “will always have a lot of bitter memories for people” and “remembered waking up and seeing the news on June 4th that the unthinkable had happened.” He also acknowledged that the Chinese government had deceived and mistreated its people. He criticized the Chinese Communist Party on human rights, met with dissidents and worked on bills criticizing Beijing over its treatment of its people and subject countries. In 2016, he acknowledged that he wanted U.S.-China trade, but with green, fair trade and human rights agreements.

Still, Walz’s critiques may seem like “a big help with a little slander,” a recognized tactic of the CCP. The author of Caught in the Act: How US Elites Get Rich Helping China Win“Beijing pragmatically accepts a certain degree of public criticism from the elites it works with (when they) implement important policies and actions that benefit the regime.”

For example?

At first, Walz took money from the Chinese government to influence the Americans.

He and his wife started a company that sent American students to China, something he said was funded by the Chinese government.

The Walzs’ program ran until 2003, and the governor recently estimated he had made more than 30 trips to the country.

He admitted that he was a trendsetter by bringing American students to China at the expense of the Chinese government to learn more about the Chinese government.

Second, Walz supported Minnesota’s designation as a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants, part of the web of pro-illegal immigrant policies that has recently made Chinese expats the fastest-growing group crossing our southern border illegally, rising from 342 to 30,000 during the Biden-Harris administration — an 8,671% increase.

Even if many of these border crossers were legitimately fleeing China to escape COVID-19 restrictions and totalitarian tyranny, critics argue that this “massive surge of Chinese nationals … very likely” includes the introduction of “military personnel,” since many are “military-age men” with “known ties” to the CCP, the Chinese military. “If you’re a bad guy who wants to infiltrate agents into the United States, the southern border is a pretty easy way to do that,” one independent national security analyst agreed. After all, before this surge even began, a staggering 5.4 million Chinese nationals had already amassed in America.

What is Walz doing in Minnesota about a Chinese presence in America that is about twice the size of the U.S. military? A lot of help with a little gossip.

Third, Walz’s ties to China also raise questions about ignoring the blatant flow of fentanyl-killing Americans. China’s role now largely consists of supplying the cartels with fentanyl feedstock, which they then manufacture and smuggle. The result: The number of drug overdose deaths under the Biden-Harris administration is approaching the number of deaths in America during World War II.

This crisis requires more than complaining about human rights in Tibet. It requires attacking China for its chemical supply operation and possibly using military force against the Chinese cartel’s cross-border customers. People like Walz, who “strongly disagree” that our relationship with China should be hostile, may have more malleable intentions toward the Middle Kingdom.

Finally, take COVID-19 reparations. We now know that Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior CCP officials discussed the coronavirus at a politburo meeting on January 7, 2020, proving that he had early warning of the potential pandemic.

As the “Xi disease” began to take its toll, President Donald Trump explicitly accused China of “spreading the disease” — questioning why the CCP was restricting travel to and within China but allowing flights to America and the rest of the world.

Today, COVID-19 deaths have soared past 7 million, and insane COVID-19 crackdowns modeled after China have cost the United States alone more than $14 trillion. Should Xi and his regime pay nothing for losses on that scale?

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It’s a question that probably doesn’t occur to a vice president who, however long he lives, will never again be treated as well as he was in China. Especially not when, as governor, he cracked down so hard on COVID-19 that he set up a Soviet-style snitch line.

Although Walz has spoken out about human rights violations by the CCP, taking the Chinese threat seriously is only possible if one has not received more Chinese gifts than one can take home.

Christopher C. Hull, Ph.D., is president of Issue Management, a public affairs firm that does grassroots and advocacy work, including in the area of ​​national security. He previously served as chief of staff to a member of the House of Representatives.