Tim Walz: Why Tim Walz got married on anniversary of Tiananmen Square, GOP senator asks

GOP senator Ron Johnson Monday triggered a fresh row as he asked why Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz got married on the anniversary on Tiananmen Square. This is not the first time that the GOP attacked Kamala Harris’ running mate over his China connection, but this time it is regarding his wedding date.
Speaking to Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, Johnson said Kamala Harris is a radical leftist and she chose another radical leftist.“The House is going to investigate it now — it’s very strange. He got married on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square. He’s gone to China. He’s taught in China. He’s got deep connections to China.”
Republican Rep. James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said Friday he is launching an investigation into Tim Walz’s “extensive engagement with China.” Comer, in his announcement on Friday, cited recent articles from the New York Post and Newsweek examining ties between Walz and China — including comments he made about visiting the nation 30 times, some of which were teaching trips, and a 2016 interview where he said he didn’t “fall into the category that China necessarily needs to be an adversarial relationship.”
Comer, in his announcement on Friday, cited recent articles from the New York Post and Newsweek examining ties between Walz and China — including comments he made about visiting the nation 30 times, some of which were teaching trips, and a 2016 interview where he said he didn’t “fall into the category that China necessarily needs to be an adversarial relationship.”

Tim Walz married Gwen on June 4, 1994 — the fifth anniversary of the uprising in China’s Tiananmen Square. Gwen at that time said Tim Walz wanted a date that he would always remember. Tim also went to China for his honeymoon. Tim Walz spent a year in the Far East in 1989 when he taught English and American history and culture in Foshan, Guangdong province, as part of the WorldTeach program learning Mandarin.
Tim and Gwen set up a business called Educational Travel Adventures to organize summer trips to China for American high schools students and ran an exchange program until 2003.
As Republicans attacked Tim Walz over his China connection, the Dems also pointed out that wife of GOP’s VP candidate JD Vance, Usha also went to China. During her time at Yale, she also taught American history as a Yale-China Teaching Fellow at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.