Quick — describe Minnesota governor and spectacularly failed Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Walz in one word.
Assuming your description is publicly printable, what did you come up with?
Loony? Unhinged? Nutty? Lunatic? Delusional?
Chances are, whatever derogatory descriptor you chose is a far cry from the way the Communist leaders in China viewed Walz in the past — and likely still do — based on information contained in newly released internal memos from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI.
The memos show that both DHS and the FBI had serious, longstanding concerns about Walz and his connections to the Chinese Communist Party, reported Just the News on Monday, especially after he was selected by Harris as her vice presidential running mate in 2024.
DHS provided the documents to the watchdog organization Judicial Watch, which had submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and filed a lawsuit against the government earlier in 2025.
The request sought communications from an agency group chat that reportedly mentioned the investigation into Walz and his relationship with Beijing. Whistleblowers revealed the existence of these messages to the House Oversight Committee last year, but the DHS, under the Biden administration, of course, resisted releasing the relevant documents.
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The concerns were about Walz’s relationship with China, particularly in the context of potential Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence, and his extensive travel to China.
While Walz’s defenders have long argued that his actions in China were solely due to educational and diplomatic engagements, his actions, and sometimes effusive comments about China, potentially suggest otherwise — if nothing more than that the leftist governor is a champion of the communist giant.
Where There’s Smoke, Is There Fire?
In 1989, Walz, then a recent college graduate, taught English and American history for a year at a high school in Guangdong, which was arranged through Harvard University’s WorldTeach program. It’s worth noting that this was a tenuous period in China, which saw the Tiananmen Square massacre of protesting students, although Waltz arrived in-country later in the year.
Additionally, Walz claimed during a 2016 congressional hearing that he had visited China approximately 30 times — which he revised to “closer to 15 times” during the 2024 presidential election campaign. One notable trip in 1993 was partially funded by the Chinese government, and the Walzes honeymooned in China in 1994 on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
There’s more, but let’s get back to the story at hand.
In one of the newly released memos, a Homeland Security employee wrote in a message to the group chat called “NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync” on August 7, 2024: “China is happy,” just one day after Harris announced Walz as her running mate. The unnamed employee linked to a BBC News article detailing Chinese internet reactions to the choice, which were largely positive.
Rhetorical question: Why was that? Why were the ChiComs largely positive about the prospect of Tim Walz as vice president of the United States?
In response, another Homeland Security employee, whose name was also redacted, suggested looping in the FBI, due to its responsibility for domestic counterintelligence. “[W]ith FBI mission in the CI field i [sic] believe they need to get included,” the employee wrote.
You can read the documents here.
Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, told Just the News in a statement on Monday:
This is every bit as important as the Russiagate disclosures. The Biden gang obviously covered this all up to try to help rig the election.
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