Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, allegedly engaged in a secret love affair with the daughter of a senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official while he was teaching in Foshan, China, in 1989, according to a Daily Mail exclusive report.
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Jenna Wang, now 59, gave the Daily Mail an account of how her relationship with Walz started as a whirlwind romance but eventually left her feeling exploited and discarded.
The pair met when Wang, an English teacher, attended one of Walz’s lectures to hone her mastery of the language. Walz, then 25, allegedly made advances at Wang.
It was several months after he arrived in Foshan that Walz is said to have fallen head over heels for Wang, a pretty, highly educated English language teacher at the nearby No. 8 Middle School.
She was attending one of his lectures to brush up on her pronunciation when the then-25-year-old Walz slipped her headphones aside and whispered into her ear: ‘You are very beautiful.’
‘Tim was very handsome. I loved his eyes and his big mouth. We talked afterwards and he was very complimentary about my English,’ Wang told DailyMail.com.
The relationship progressed from that point, but the couple had to keep their relationship secret to prevent Wang’s father, a prominent CCP official named Bin Hui, from finding out. They limited their public interactions. “We couldn’t touch or kiss in public,” Wang told the Daily Mail, “because my father would have been very, very angry and sad if he had found out.”
Wang recalled Walz bringing her rare luxury items from Hong Kong and Macau. These were items that were nearly impossible to obtain in China at the time. She found his lack of musical talent endearing. “He couldn’t sing, and when he tried to dance, he found it very hard. I could tell he was in the military,” she said.
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Wang described her wish to start a shared life together, saying they “were deeply in love” and that she “wanted to marry him and start a family.”
But she soon realized that a permanent relationship with Walz was not meant to be. “When it didn’t happen, I felt very unhappy and sad,” she said, also stating that Walz’s “behavior was very selfish.”
During the summer Walz returned to the US but wrote letters to Wang, giving vivid depictions of his life and teaching job in Alliance, Nebraska.
At Walz’s direction, Wang says she sent off a passport photo and information about herself to an address in the States, believing it was part of the process to secure her a visa.
When the future running mate of presidential hopeful Kamala Harris flew back to China in 1992, she resigned her coveted teaching role, believing she was about to embark on a new life.
Their relationship soon began to sour, however, when Walz made clumsy, romantic gestures in public, on one occasion trying to feed Wang a slice of pear as they embarked on a ten-day tour of South China.
‘People were staring at us. I tried to reject it because I was very afraid. Teachers were supposed to set an example,’ she said.
The couple made sure to book two hotel rooms wherever they stayed but on an overnight train journey Walz insisted that Wang sleep in his cabin.
The conductor shone a flashlight on Wang in the middle of the night and started to admonish her, only to retreat when Walz, afforded more respect as a westerner, woke up.
When the pair reached Hainan Island, known for its tropical climate and beach resorts, Wang was ready to confront him about their future plans.
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The breaking point came when Walz accused her of being more interested in obtaining a United States passport than being his companion.
“This was very offensive. I said to him that it is both or nothing,” she said.
I was giving up my life and my position to move to Nebraska, a cold place in the middle of nowhere that most Chinese people had never heard of. I was giving it up to be with Tim, to get married and start a family. Knowing now that he wasn’t going to marry me made me feel cheap and common, as if I was being treated like a prostitute.
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The end of the relationship came at a bus station when the couple was headed to Foshan. Wang had decided to break off the affair and said she would travel to Guilin to be with her mother after she underwent surgery. When the bus stopped, she told Walz she would not disembark with him.
“The bus stopped but I didn’t get off. He said, ‘please come and let’s talk, let’s give this a chance,’” Wang told the Daily Mail.
But Wang declined, saying she “wasn’t going to force a person to love me.”
She later moved to Europe and became a teacher. When asked why she came forward with their story, Wang brought up Walz’s lies about Tiananmen Square and intimated that he has lied about other issues. “This is a very crucial moment in history, and a man like this does not appear to have the character and integrity to do one of the most important jobs in the world,” she said.
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