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Kamala Harris aides grilled Tim Walz on China ties during running mate vetting process: report
https://nypost.com/ ^ | jan. 19, 2026 | Ariel Zilber

Posted on 01/19/2026 4:12:46 PM PST by bitt

Campaign aides to former Vice President Kamala Harris quizzed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on whether he was an agent for the Chinese Communist Party before selecting him as her running mate, according to a report.

The intense vetting of Walz, which was reported by CNN, came about after Harris aides dug into the governor’s past, including the several trips he took to China before entering politics.

Walz’s China ties stem from his years as a teacher before entering politics.

He taught in China in the late 1980s shortly after the Tiananmen Square crackdown and later returned multiple times, leading student trips to the country over the years, according to accounts reviewed during the vetting process.

Those past visits, Harris aides said, prompted questions about whether he had ever acted on behalf of a foreign government, which Walz denied.

An aide for Harris, who became the Democratic Party’s de facto nominee after then-President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race, also asked Josh Shapiro if he had ever been an “agent of the Israeli government” while vetting him as her possible No. 2, the Pennsylvania governor wrote in his memoir.

Shapiro, the charismatic 52-year-old who is Jewish, wrote in his upcoming memoir that he took offense to the suggestion that he may hold “dual loyalty” — an accusation that many consider to be antisemitic.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chicomtim; china; dflcorruption; dflcoverup; dflkickbacks; dflracketeering; insurrectionwalz; kamalaharris; presidentofsomalia; timwalz; walzingmaduro

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1 posted on 01/19/2026 4:12:46 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 01/19/2026 4:13:02 PM PST by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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To: bitt

“””Campaign aides to former Vice President Kamala Harris quizzed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on whether he was an agent for the Chinese Communist Party before selecting him as her running mate, according to a report. “”””

When they found he was an agent of China and would do whatever they wanted they immediately put him on the ticket...probably.


3 posted on 01/19/2026 4:14:18 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: bitt

obama dirtbag former AG Eric Holder was deeply involved in the process. obama and Holder had a lot to do with Kamala being the VP pick for biden.


4 posted on 01/19/2026 4:15:48 PM PST by boycott
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To: bitt

I guess they determined his ties to Chicoms were very strong, so they picked him.


5 posted on 01/19/2026 4:16:21 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: bitt

Walz probably did some fancy jazz hands to distract Harris and then said we must unburden ourselves of the present that has today’s thoughts of the past that need to be part of the past that was once the present.

Harris: Can I use that? You are so smart. Are you in MENSA?

And
Can I ask you something? How high up in the sky is the Cloud?
Is it above the stratosphere?


6 posted on 01/19/2026 4:17:47 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Walz taught in China in the late 1980s shortly after the Tiananmen Square crackdown and later returned multiple times, leading student trips to the country over the years...

Hmmmmmm...I always wondered what Fang Fang looked like without makeup. 😳

7 posted on 01/19/2026 4:18:35 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: shelterguy

Exactly!


8 posted on 01/19/2026 4:19:49 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: bitt
They've told Walz to tone down the wing wang ching chang affectations like the chinaman hand clasp and bow.

9 posted on 01/19/2026 4:20:25 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: boycott

I would guess Valerie Jarrett was also involved in that process back then. Is she still living with the Obama boys?


10 posted on 01/19/2026 4:22:00 PM PST by Blue Highway ( )
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Tim Walz made an impression in China, students and teachers say
By John Ruwitch
August 20, 2024
NPR News

BEIJING — When Vice President Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate on the Democratic ticket earlier this month, a Chinese woman in Western Australia, thousands of miles away, couldn’t contain her excitement, shouting with joy at the news.

“When I realized that he was the Tim that [was] in my memory, I was amazed, and felt so proud of him,” Christy Dai told NPR by phone from Perth.

In 1989, a 15-year-old Dai met Walz, who became her first foreign English teacher at Foshan No. 1 Middle School in southern China. During that school year, Walz taught English and U.S. history to around 300 students, she says.

For Walz, it was an introduction to a country that he would return to about 30 times in the ensuing years, by his own reckoning — a cumulative experience that has come under a spotlight since his addition to the Democratic ticket.


11 posted on 01/19/2026 4:24:02 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Blue Highway

I would guess Valerie Jarrett was also involved in that process back then. Is she still living with the Obama boys?

I wouldn’t doubt that.


12 posted on 01/19/2026 4:29:44 PM PST by boycott
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To: boycott

In other words, Kramala was set to be another Obama puppet.


13 posted on 01/19/2026 4:43:16 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: bitt

They should have asked him “Are you a Somali agent?”


14 posted on 01/19/2026 4:46:20 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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If he was, he wouldn’t have said yes...


15 posted on 01/19/2026 5:02:02 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bitt

Something about the under the bus need.

wy69


16 posted on 01/19/2026 5:54:48 PM PST by whitney69
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To: bitt; piasa

Harris had enough Chicom ties of her own to worry about already, such as:

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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3885174/posts

Why Are Kamala Harris and BLM Helping the Chinese Progressive Association Finance the Black Futures Lab?


17 posted on 01/19/2026 5:59:35 PM PST by Fedora
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To: boycott

If memory serves, Obama didn’t want Harris as a candidate and didn’t endorse her for several days after the nomination.


18 posted on 01/19/2026 6:17:06 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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