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.
“This is a guy who will have to learn the truth of the vicious nature of the dictatorship in Beijing. Communist tyranny may not be a bad thing to Walz but the rest of the world knows,” Hutton said. “Walz is dangerous.”
Walz has been so enamored with China that he and his wife Gwen Walz even honeymooned there.
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During Tim Walz’s time teaching, he went all over China — doing six stints in Macau and traveling to Tiananmen Square, the site of the 1989 protest massacre, he said.
Walz, who was announced Tuesday as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate in the 2024 presidential election, insisted the Chinese people would have “no limits” to what they could accomplish if they have the “proper leadership.
“They are such kind, generous, capable people. They just gave and gave and gave to me. Going there was one of the best things I’ve ever done,” Walz said.
Walz and his wife, Gwen Whipple, went on to work in China exchange programs with Beijing in 1994, providing seven high school students in Nebraska help with traveling to China and adapting to Chinese culture, according to the Alliance Times-Herald in 1993.
The governor has since traveled to China extensively with his wife, continued to speak positively about the country and said the US should not view it as an “adversary.
“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,” Walz said in an interview with Agri-Pulse in 2016.
The governor said in that interview that he wants to trade with China but that he also wants the country to adhere to environmental, fair trade and human rights agreements.
The Trump campaign quickly began joining allies in amplifying Walz’s past ties to China, likely signaling a future plan of attack against him during the remainder of the 2024 race.
“This is a guy who has proposed shipping more manufacturing jobs to China, wants to make America more reliant on garbage energy instead of American energy and proposed defunding the police,” Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance told reporters Tuesday.
The Harris campaign did not respond to an inquiry from The Post.