More disturbing information comes forth about Walz's China ties, DHS stonewalls congressional committee's inquiries

WASHINGTON, DC - As days pass, it appears that whoever was charged with vetting Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz either didn’t do their homework or didn’t care. At the same time, it’s been revealed that the daughter of a Chinese Communist Party official had an affair with Walz while he was teaching in China in the late 1980s, it’s been revealed that a Department of Homeland Security official told colleagues that Walz’s selection “feeds into” activities conducted by China “with him and local government.” He further warned that Beijing could use Walz to exert influence on U.S. policy, Fox News reports. 

The report said that In August, the House Oversight Committee, led by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), launched an investigation into Walz’s “longstanding” ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

In September, Comer subpoenaed Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, seeking records related to Walz’s connections. That came after a whistleblower notified the committee of the existence of a non-classified Microsoft Teams chat carried out by DHS employees and further intelligence reports that revealed possible connections between Walz and the CCP. 

However, in a pattern that has become all too familiar with officials in the Biden administration, Mayorkas chose to ignore the subpoena, leaving Comer with no choice but to publicly call out the DHS's unresponsiveness in a letter on Tuesday. 

In response to DHS’s lack of cooperation, Comer released a portion of DHS internal communications received from the whistleblower. 

“Walt’s [sic] got the Vp,” reads the message, the sender’s name redacted. “You all have no idea how this feeds into what prc has been doing here with him and local gov.” 

The official's message continued, highlighting the seriousness of the situation: “It’s seriously a line of the intel. Target someone who is perceived they can get to DC.” This underscores the potential threat to U.S. policy that Walz's alleged ties to China could pose. 

“The Committee is releasing the above message as an example of communications within DHS’s possession in which DHS officials express concern about the CCP targeting politicians and their influence operations at the state and local levels–and specifically, concerns about the CCP’s influence operations as they related to Governor Walz,” Comer wrote in a letter Tuesday.  

Comer explained that the message was sent using a Microsoft Teams group chat among DHS employees entitled “NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync,” the same chate Comer identified in his subpoena. Law Enforcement Today recently published a bombshell report that Microsoft is using Chinese employees inside the communist nation to oversee U.S. government cloud infrastructure. 

Comer further advised Mayorkas that the DHS whistleblower provided the committee with information that alleges officials from the DHS’ Office of Intelligence Analysis and Homeland Security Investigations have been involved in the agency’s investigative and/or intelligence work connected with the CCP, the state of Minnesota, and Walz, Fox reported. 

“The Committee’s concerns surrounding CCP elite capture operations seeking to influence public officials like Governor Walz have intensified given recent reports about Governor Walz’s extensive travel history, unusual interactions in the People’s Republic of China, and recent inability to answer basic questions about his involvement in China,” Comer wrote. 

In September, Comer said Walz had “engaged and partnered with” entities within China, saying this made him “susceptible” to the CCP’s “elite capture” strategy, which seeks to co-opt influential figures in political, cultural and academic circles to “influence the United States to the benefit of the communist regime and the detriment of Americans.” 

Comer said Walz’s ties to China include trips to China while working as a teacher in the 1990s, with costs reportedly “paid for by the Chinese government.” Comer is also looking into a 1994-created company Walz founded called “Educational Travel Adventures, Inc., which coordinated the annual student trips to China until 2003 and which were led by Walz. 

Comer said the company “dissolved four days after he took congressional office in 2007.” 

While serving in Congress, Walz served as a fellow at the Macau Polytechnic University, which touts itself as having a “long-held devotion to and lover for the motherland,” Comer said. 

Walz’s ties to China, however, run much deeper than that. For example, in 2019, Fox reported that he headlined the 27th National Convention for the U.S.-China Peoples Friendships Association in Minnesota. One year later, the U.S. State Department identified that organization as “a ZBeijing-based organization tasked with co-opting subnational governments,” including efforts to “directly and malignly influence state and local leaders to promote the PRC’s global agenda,” the House Oversight Committee revealed. 

Walz’s connections with China continued until earlier this year when he met with Consul General Zhao Jian to discuss “China-U.S. relations and subnational cooperation.” 

Comer slammed the DHS for not honoring the subpoena, saying the department has been “unresponsive” and is not operating in “good faith,” noting the DHS “did not produce responsive documents.” 

“DHS has been wholly unresponsive, and the Committee is considering all available options,” Comer wrote. “The documents covered by the Committee’s subpoena will inform the Committee’s understanding of CCP political warfare against the United States and how effectively federal agencies are countering the communist regime’s infiltration operations.” 

Comer said last week that he did speak to the DHS senior advisor for legislative affairs on an Oct. 21 phone call. However, the official “offered no substantive information, nor any assurance that substantive information would be forthcoming.” 

It almost makes one ask what exactly they are trying to hide.