Peter Schweizer Lays Out Tim Walz’s Love of China

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) — Vice President Kamala Harris’s choice for running mate — has a long history of loving China, New York Times bestselling author and Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily, laying out Walz’s history.

Walz seems to have a deep affection for China, which Schweizer, host of the Drill Down podcast and president of the Government Accountability Institute, said is not an issue in itself. However, it begins to get muddied when you are dealing and showing affection not to the Chinese people but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), he explained.

“The concerns are, look, you know, you can like China. You can like the Chinese people. The question is, when you set up an exchange program, as he did, to bring students to China, you’re not dealing with the Chinese people — you’re dealing with the Chinese Communist Party. And in the case of his program, it’s funded by the CCP. It was organized with the help of the CCP,” he said, beginning to lay out some of the issues, noting that students were told by Walz to tone down their “Americanness” when going to China.

Schweizer pointed out that it is “kind of odd, because if you’re having a cultural exchange, the purpose is to actually learn about the other culture.”

“You want the Chinese to learn about American culture, and certainly you wouldn’t want to tell Chinese coming to the United States to downplay their Chineseness. So there’s that element of it. There’s also kind of this odd relationship with the Chinese state,” he said, explaining that Walz chose to give a speech in 2019 to an organization which served as a front group for the CCP. This fact was recognized for decades, he explained, and was recognized by Democrats and Republicans alike. more