Walzing with Xi: Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ take on China relations seriously

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s longtime love affair with China has left him critical of his government’s mistreatment of its people — yet does it facilitate its mistreatment of us?

Ever since Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, chose Walz as her running mate, his relationship with the self-styled “Middle Kingdom” has come under feverish, feverish, even fervent scrutiny.

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

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

“(A) young American with affection for China who was also a part-time member of the US military would have been a tempting recruitment 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 vicious nature of the Beijing dictatorship. Communist tyranny may not be a bad thing to Walz, but the rest of the world knows.”

What are the facts?

First, The waltz really went to China to teach immediately after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Turning, he gushed, “As long as I live, I will never be treated so well again. They gave me more gifts than I could bring home.”

He claimed, “There was no anti-American feeling,” although he advised the 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 because he didn’t forget the date and then went on his honeymoon to China.

Walz disagrees now that “China must necessarily be an adversarial relationship” for America — China’s foreign minister says we’re headed for inevitable “confrontations and conflicts” if America doesn’t blink.

So Walz’s ties to China are, in a word, strange.

That said, Walz acknowledged that Tiananmen “will always have a lot of bitter memories for people” and “remembered waking up and seeing the news on June 4 that something unthinkable had happened.” He also admitted that the Chinese government cheated and mistreated its people. He criticized the Chinese Communist Party on human rights, meeting with dissidents and working on bills critical of Beijing over its treatment of its people and subjugated lands. In 2016, he admitted that he wanted US trade with China, but with environmental, fair trade and human rights agreements.

However, Walz’s criticism could appear to be “a lot of help with a little bad mouthing,” a recognized tactic of the CCP. Its author Red-handed: How America’s Elites Get Rich by Helping China Winexplains, “Beijing pragmatically accepts some level of public criticism from the elites it works with (if they) carry out key policies and actions that benefit the regime.”

For example?

First, Walz took money from the Chinese government to help the Americans.

He and his wife founded a company that took American students to China, which he admitted supported the Chinese government.

Walzs program lasted until 2003, and recently, the governor estimated he made more than 30 trips to the country.

He admitted that he was a trendsetter in bringing American students there with Chinese government money to learn about the Chinese government.

Second, Walz supported Minnesota’s illegal immigrant sanctuary state status, part of the network of pro-illegal immigrant policies that recently made Chinese expats the fastest-growing group crossing our border illegally. south, from 342 to 30,000 during the Biden-Harris administration — up 8,671 percent.

Even though many of these border jumpers have legitimately fled China to escape the COVID-19 crackdown and totalitarian tyranny, critics charge that this “massive increase in Chinese nationals … very likely” includes the insertion of “military personnel,” as many are “men of military age”. with “known ties” to the Chinese CCP military. “If you’re a bad guy who wants to infiltrate operatives in the US, the southern border is a pretty easy way to do it,” agreed an independent national security analyst. After all, before this growth began, 5.4 million Chinese citizens had already accumulated in America.

What is Walz doing in Minnesota about a Chinese presence in America roughly twice the size of the US military? Big help with a little foul mouth.

Third, Walz’s ties to China also raise questions about ignoring the blatant flow of fentanyl that is killing Americans. China’s role now is to supply the cartels with raw materials for fentanyl, which those cartels manufacture and smuggle. The result: Drug overdose deaths during the Biden-Harris administration approximate America’s World War II body count.

This crisis requires more than complaining about human rights in Tibet. It needs to look at China over its chemical supply operation and use possible military levels of force against China’s cross-border cartel clients. Those like Walz, who “totally disagree” that our relationship with China must be adversarial, may have softer intentions toward the Middle Kingdom.

Finally, get your fix for COVID-19. We now know that Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior CCP officials discussed the coronavirus at a Politburo meeting on January 7, 2020, demonstrating that he had early knowledge of the possible pandemic.

Once the “Xi disease” took hold, President Donald Trump explicitly accused China of “letting it spread” — asking why the CCP had reduced travel to and within China but allowed flights to continue to America and the rest of the world.

Today, deaths from COVID-19 have surpassed 7 million, and China’s insane crackdown on COVID-19 has cost the United States alone more than $14 trillion. Should Xi and his regime pay nothing for losses of this magnitude?

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A question unlikely to come to mind for a vice president who, no matter how long he lives, will never again be treated as well as he was in China — especially one who, as governor, cracked down on COVID- 19 so crazy that he settled on a Soviet-style snitch line.

As candid as Walz was about the CCP’s human rights abuses, taking the Chinese threat seriously may require someone who hasn’t received more Chinese gifts than he can bring home.

Christopher C. Hull, Ph.D., is president of Issue Management, a public affairs firm engaged in grassroots and advocacy work, including in the national security field. He was previously chief of staff to a member of the House of Representatives.