Unearthed letter reveals Walz boasted about Minnesota hosting 'numerous senior Chinese leaders'

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice statesmanlike nominee, boasted astir Minnesota hosting respective apical Chinese leaders successful a missive unearthed by Fox News Digital.

The Minnesota International Chinese School showcased a 2021 missive from Walz connected its YouTube transmission celebrating the 10th day of the school's Chinese New Year.

"Minnesota has a longstanding narration with the radical of China," Walz said successful the letter. "The authorities has promoted Minnesota's connections with China and has hosted galore elder Chinese leaders for decades. Thousands of Minnesotans assertion ancestral connections to China, which has helped foster galore ties betwixt Minnesota and China."

"These ties are rapidly expanding done the maturation of education, trade, and concern opportunities betwixt our 2 peoples," helium added earlier congratulating the schoolhouse connected a "very important milestone" and "teaching our connection learners and aboriginal leaders the value of speaking aggregate languages and of being planetary citizens."

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Gov. Tim Walz and Chinese flags. ((Photo by Anna Moneymaker and Getty Images))

The missive came wrong 10 days of Zhao Jian, the Consul General of China successful Chicago, signaling a four-minute greeting successful Chinese for the school, according to the school's YouTube channel. Walz's transportation to Jian has been nether scrutiny successful caller weeks aft the House Oversight Committee unearthed a gathering betwixt Walz and Jian earlier this twelvemonth discussing "China-U.S. relations and sub-national cooperation."

While the specifics of the gathering aren't clear, a 2022 report from the Biden administration’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) highlighted however U.S.-based Chinese consulates similar the 1 Walz met with "play an progressive role" successful "foreign power operations" connected behalf of the CCP. 

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Walz's decades-long ties to China person travel backmost to haunt him since Vice President Harris picked him to articulation her Democratic summons arsenic the vice statesmanlike nominee. He worked concisely successful China arsenic a teacher, traveling to Guangdong successful 1989 for a teaching-abroad programme to thatch English and American history. 

Walz was initially believed to person made dozens of trips to China implicit his lifetime, but a run spokesperson would aboriginal effort to locomotion that fig backmost and accidental helium made astir 15 visits to China, which included his honeymoon successful 1994. 

"I've lived successful China and, arsenic I've said, I've been determination astir 30 times. . . . I don't autumn into the class that China needfully needs to beryllium an adversarial relationship. I wholly disagree, and I deliberation we request to basal steadfast connected what they're doing successful the South China Sea, but there's galore areas of practice we tin enactment on," Walz antecedently said successful an interrogation with Agri-Pulse Communications.

He besides came to the defence of the Chinese Communist system, saying during a 1991 schoolhouse acquisition that it "means that everyone is the same, and everyone shares." 

"The doc and the operation idiosyncratic marque the same," helium continued, according to the Washington Free Beacon. "The Chinese authorities and the spot they enactment for supply lodging and 14 kg oregon astir 30 pounds of atom per month. They get nutrient and housing."

Vice President Kamala Harris' VP prime Walz has faced accrued scrutiny for his ties to China. (Maksim Konstantinov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Walz was besides quoted by a section outlet successful 1990 reflecting connected his visits to China, saying, "No substance however agelong I live, I volition ne'er beryllium treated that good again. . . . They gave maine much gifts than I could bring home. It was an fantabulous experience," Walz said, adding that helium had been "treated exceptionally well."

Fox News Digital precocious reported that a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) authoritative sounded the alarm with colleagues astir however Harris' determination to prime Walz for the statesmanlike summons "feeds into" activities the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were conducting "with him and section government," informing that Beijing could "target" him to exert power connected U.S. policy. 

"Walt’s [sic] got the Vp," reads the message, with the individuality of the sender redacted. "You each person nary thought however this feeds into what prc has been doing present with him and section gov."

The authoritative added, "It’s earnestly a enactment of the intel. Target idiosyncratic who is perceived they tin get to DC." 

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer wrote successful a missive to Mayorkas connected Tuesday that the Committee is "releasing the supra connection arsenic an illustration of communications wrong DHS’s possession successful which DHS officials explicit interest astir the CCP targeting politicians and their power operations astatine the authorities and section levels — and specifically, concerns astir the CCP’s power operations arsenic they related to Governor Walz."

Democratic vice statesmanlike nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks astatine a run stop, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, successful Manitowoc, Wis.  (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

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Walz has besides faced scrutiny for his ties to a Minnesota-based aesculapian probe institute with a agelong way grounds of collaborating with a steadfast labeled by the Pentagon arsenic a "Chinese subject company" and with Chinese officials with arguable ties to the CCP.

In 2014, Walz welcomed a delegation from China to the institute that included Wang Yanling, the vice politician of Henan Province and a Communist Party doctor. Yanling is listed arsenic holding respective positions successful the Chinese Communist Party implicit the people of galore decades.

Several members of the Chinese Communist Party person sat connected the committee of directors astatine the Henan Cancer Institute, according to an archived mentation of the organization's website.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Harris-Walz campaign.

Fox News' Brooke Singman and Adam Shaw contributed to this report.