The Great Walz of China

By Tim Hains
Real Clear Wire
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Government Accountability Institute
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Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer recently spoke about Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz's associations with China over the years during an interview with FNC's Jesse Watters. 

The following words are from Schweizer.

We're basically 48 hours into this, and it's already quite disconcerting. The key component here is not just his (Walz's) ties to China, but his ties to the Chinese Communist Party. 

He had this student exchange program that was funded by the Chinese government. All exchanges made by the Chinese government are managed by the CCP. And if you look at some of the local news reporting in the Midwest of students who attended that program, they explain how Walz told them to, "downplay their Americanness" when they visited China, which is an odd thing to say if you're engaging in cultural exchange. I mean, you wouldn't say to a Chinese national coming to the United States, downplay your Chinese nature. 

This has all the hallmarks of a close association with the CCP. He gave a speech in 2019 to a known front group that's linked to Chinese intelligence. We also know that when he was inaugurated as governor of Minnesota, he invited Chinese diplomats to attend those events. 

And then you've got the issue of these Chinese police stations that we've heard about. You've reported on them. There are seven of them in the United States. 

These illegal police stations are designed to intimidate Chinese nationals in the United States, one of them is in the Twin Cities, and it's actually run by an entity that is allied with something called Minnesota Global, which is a pro-Walz organization. 

Now, Governor Walz has denounced the local police departments in the Twin Cities for their brutality. 

He's done nothing about this unofficial Chinese police station. It just shows the willingness he will go to appease the Chinese government. 

Look at his statements on China. His defenders will say "Oh, well he raises issues of human rights in China." 

He really doesn't. He'll talk about an occasional case, but he engages in this ridiculous moral equivalence. 

On the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, when he was on the floor of Congress when he was serving, he brought this up. 

He said, yeah, the Tiananmen Square massacre happened, so every country has done this sort of thing. And he brought up Wounded Knee in the United States. In Wounded Knee, 38 native Americans were butchered in 1863, and it became a national disgrace. 

In Tiananmen Square, 10,000 Chinese nationals were butchered and in fact, the president of China now, President Xi's wife, who's a famous singer in China, she actually serenaded the troops after the massacre, applauding them for what they had done. 

So to equate the two and say somehow Wounded Knee is like Tiananmen Square is a ridiculous comparison, and he knows better.