Tim Walz, the vice-presidential candidate alongside Kamala Harris, faces claims of a secret relationship with a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official’s daughter during his teaching tenure in China in 1989. Jenna Wang, the woman involved, has publicly disclosed details of their relationship, which she says took place while she was a teacher at a school near where Walz taught under a nonprofit program.
Wang, now residing and working in Europe, alleges the steamy relationship was kept clandestine due to the inevitable repercussions from her father, a high-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party named Bin Hui.
“…we talked for hours and hours, we stayed in bed, we had sex… he continued to buy me gifts,” she told the Daily Mail.
She recalls that they kept their romance hidden and avoided public displays of affection to prevent her father’s disapproval. Despite the secrecy, Wang says their relationship included time spent exchanging cultural tokens, such as music and intimate gestures.
The relationship, Wang claims, eventually soured when Walz allegedly suggested she was interested more in obtaining a U.S. passport than in marriage. Feeling betrayed, she ended the relationship, with the pair apparently reconnecting over Facebook in 2009 to talk “about how their lives had panned out.”
Walz’s time in China has been noted for controversy already, as he has previously made inaccurate statements regarding his location during the Tiananmen Square protests. He later admitted errors in his recollection of dates during a vice-presidential debate, describing himself as a “knucklehead.”
There has been no comment from the Harris-Walz campaign on these recent revelations. Walz, who later married another teacher in 1994, has not publicly responded to Wang’s claims.
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