Kamala Harris’ running mate Tim Walz allegedly had a passionate romance with the daughter of a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official, the Daily Mail reported Monday.
Walz engaged in the secret tryst with Jenna Wang, then an English language teacher, during his 1989 teaching stint in the Chinese city Foshan, she told the Daily Mail.
Wang claimed the pair did not show any public affection to each other as it apparently would have bothered Wang’s father, Bin Hui, a high-ranking CCP official and chairman of a labor union in her home city Guilin, according to the outlet. Walz married Gwen Whipple in 1994.
“My father would have been very, very angry and sad if he had found out,” Wang told the outlet.
The pair allegedly slept together and spent nights romantically dancing to the song “Careless Whisper” by George Michael, according to the outlet.
The pair apparently talked about getting married, she told the Daily Mail. She claimed she left her teaching post in 1992 because she thought their relationship would become official.
Things soured, however, when Walz allegedly insinuated Wang was only marrying him for a US passport.
“This was very offensive,” Wang told the outlet. “I wasn’t giving up my life and my position to move to Nebraska, a cold place in the middle of nowhere that most Chinese people had never heard of.”
Wang said the way Walz treated her made her feel “like a prostitute” and claimed she contemplated killing herself as a result, the Daily Mail reported.
“Knowing now that he wasn’t going to marry me made me feel cheap and common,” Wang told the outlet. (RELATED: ‘Timmy Got Issues’: Edgar The Puppet’s Rap Debut | MUSIC VIDEO OUT NOW)
Walz’s alleged clandestine affair is another chapter in what is becoming a long and complex Chinese backstory for the Democratic Minnesota governor.
After his initial August 1989 teaching trip to Foshan, Walz started to head up yearly summer visits to China with students from Nebraska and Minnesota, according to the Daily Mail.
His cultural enrichment extended both ways as he also invited CCP officials to his Nebraska classroom in 1996, according to exclusive reporting from the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF).
He also appointed a man affiliated with a minor Chinese political party “loyal” to the CCP to a state board in Minnesota in May 2020, according to the DCNF.
Walz received a mountain of criticism after seemingly lying about being in China during the deadly Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. The protests took place from April to June 1989, according to Britannica. Walz previously claimed, in separate instances, that he was there in May and June 1989. He later walked back those statements and claimed he was a knucklehead. CheckYourFact reported that Walz likely did not travel to China until August of that year.
“Tim lied about Tiananmen Square and he’s lied about other things,” Wang told the Daily Mail
‘This is a very crucial moment in history and a man like this does not appear to have the character and integrity to do one of the most important jobs in the world,” Wang concluded.
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