Democrat vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was forced to answer questions about his Controversial trip to China And misrepresentations were made about those trips during Tuesday night’s debate.
Walz has said he was in Hong Kong during the fatal incident tiananmen square Protests in the spring of 1989. But Minnesota Public Radio and other media outlets are now reporting that Walz did not actually travel to China until August of that year.
CBS News moderator Margaret Brennan asked. Walz To explain the discrepancy.
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“Look, I grew up in a small rural Nebraska town, a town where you rode bikes with your friends until the street lights were on, and I’m proud of that service,” said a clearly unsteady Walz. “I joined the National Guard at 17, worked on the family farms, and then I used the GI Bill to become a teacher.”
Walz said that as a “passionate young teacher” he “had the opportunity to travel to China 35 years ago in the summer of ’89.”
“I came back home and then started a program to take youth over there. We’d take basketball teams, we’d take baseball teams, we’d take dancers, and we’d go back and forth to China,” Walz said. Said while mentioning the travels. Were “to try and learn”.
“Look, my community knows who I am. They saw where I’ve been. I’ll be the first to tell you that I’ve poured my heart into my community, and I’ve tried to do my best, but I’ve Didn’t happen,” Walz continued.
“And I’m a fool sometimes,” Walz said.
Walz said her commitment “from the very beginning” has been “to make sure I’m there for people.”
Walz said, “A lot of times, I’ll talk a lot. I’ll get caught up in the rhetoric. But from being there, the impact it had, the difference it made in my life, I learned a lot about China.” “I hear criticism of it.”
Walz said he would “make the case that Donald Trump should have come on one of those trips with us.”
“I guarantee you he won’t praise Xi Jinping on COVID. And I guarantee you he won’t start a trade war that he’s going to lose,” Walz said. “So it’s about trying to understand the world. It’s about trying to do your best for your community, and then it’s about putting yourself out there and letting your people understand that That’s what it is.”
He added: “My commitment, whether it was through teaching, which I was good at or whether it was being a good soldier or being a good member of Congress. I think those are things that people care about. We do.,
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But Brennan pushed back, reminding Walz of the question and asking again to explain the discrepancy.
“I just said it because I went out there that summer and said it wrong,” Walz said. “So I will say what I have said. So I was in Hong Kong and China during the democracy protests and from there I learned a lot about what should happen in governance.,
Walz’s relations with China have come under the microscope since Vice President Kamala Harris became vice president.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., launched an investigation into Walz’s alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
Comer revealed that Walz has “engaged and partnered” with Chinese entities, making him “susceptible” to the CCP’s strategy of “elite capture” that is specific to “influencing the United States.” , wants to take on board influential figures in cultural and academic circles. “The gains of communist rule to the states and the loss to Americans.”
Comer pointed to reports that Walz organized a trip to China for Alliance High School students while working as a teacher in the 1990s. The cost was reportedly “paid for by the Chinese government.”
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Comer Walz formed “Educational Travel Adventures, Inc.” in 1994. is investigating a private company named Walz, which coordinated annual student trips to China until 2003 and was headed by Walz.
The company reportedly “dissolved four days after he assumed congressional office in 2007.”
Comer said Walz has traveled to China an estimated “30 times.”
Comer has now issued a subpoena to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, forcing him to produce DHS records related to Walz’s alleged ties to the CCP.
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Walz, meanwhile, said during a congressional hearing in 2016 that he had “been to China dozens of times.”
“I’ve been there about 30 times,” Walz told an agriculture-focused publication in 2016.
However, a Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson recently said minnesota public radio This number was “close to 15 times”.
