Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said in 1991 that communism is where “everyone shares.”
In a resurfaced newspaper clipping from Nebraska’s Alliance Times-Herald, Walz told high school students that communism “means that everyone is the same and everyone shares.”
“The doctor and the construction worker make the same,” Walz said. “The Chinese government and the place they work for provide housing and 14 kg or about 30 pounds of rice per month. They get food and housing.”
China expert Michael Sobolik told the Washington Free Beacon that American students “need to learn the horrific truths of communism and the horrors this dangerous ideology has wrought over the past century.”
“Gov. Walz should clarify his comments and share his impression of communism in 2024,” Sobolik said.
In another newspaper clipping, Walz described his 1989 trip to China for a year-long teaching fellowship.
He said he would “never be treated that well again,” explaining that he was given “more gifts than I could bring home. It was an excellent experience.”
Upon returning home, he planned trips to China for American students, arranged by “a friend of Walz in China’s foreign affairs department,” according to a 1993 newspaper.
Last week, the House Oversight Committee announced that it launched an investigation into Walz’s connections with China.
Walz has “longstanding connections to CCP-connected entities and officials that make him susceptible to the Party’s strategy of elite capture,” the letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray says, “which seeks to co-opt influential figures in elite political, cultural, and academic circles to influence the United States to the benefit of the communist regime and the detriment of Americans.”
