The truth behind the conspiracies about Tim Walz’s China ties

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Tim Walz has been attacked from all angles by Republicans since being unveiled as Kamala Harris’s running mate to take on Donald Trump and JD Vance in November. On social media, Richard Grenell, Trump’s former ambassador to Germany, posted in response to Walz joining the Democratic ticket: “Communist China is very happy with Tim Walz as Kamala’s VP pick. In a later interview with The Hill in 2007, he recalled: “China was coming, and that’s the reason that I went.” Years after that first trip, Walz and wife Gwen set up a business called Educational Travel Adventures to organize summer trips to China for American high school students. “I think Walz is going to put a lot of people who care a lot about American foreign policy in this part of the world at ease, knowing that there is someone on the ticket who is informed, has spent time in the region, and is not starting from square one when it comes to learning about American foreign policy in East Asia,” Lev Nachman, political scientist at National Taiwan University, told Voice of America.