Tim Walz: Compromised by China with Connections to the CCP that Are Undeniable
Republican concerns that Kamala Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz is compromised and may be soft on China are well warranted, given Walz documented connections with the Communist country.
American First Legal wrote that Walz “while serving in Congress, was a fellow at the Macau Polytechnic University, a Chinese institution that characterizes itself as having a “long-held devotion to and love for the motherland.”
During the vice-presidential debates, Tim Walz remarked that Trump should have gone on one of the high school trips he organized to China, stating, “I guarantee you he wouldn’t be praising Xi Jinping about Covid, and I guarantee you he wouldn’t start a trade war that he ends up losing.”
Walz’s comment makes little sense. While Trump did thank Xi for attempting to contain the virus in China, he strongly opposed the China-style lockdowns and pandemic response in the U.S., which Walz and other Democrats supported.
Walz’s implication that Trump would not have started the trade war if he had traveled with him to China raises the question: why? Trump initiated the trade war because China consistently engages in unfair trade practices.
China subsidizes state-owned enterprises, allowing them to undercut prices in other countries, dominate markets, and uses coercive concessionary loans to poorer nations, trapping them in debt.
These countries are then pressured to support China’s “One-China” policy and vote in favor of its initiatives at the UN. China also manipulates its currency and keeps 50% of its population at or near the poverty line, around $10 per day, to maintain cheap exports.