Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who ran alongside Kamala Harris on the 2024 Democratic ticket, raised eyebrows this week by suggesting that communist China could potentially be seen as a leading moral voice in the ongoing hostilities between Israel and Iran.
Speaking at a forum hosted by the Center for American Progress, Walz made the remarks while discussing the fallout from Israel’s military actions against Iran. As reported by Fox News, Walz stated, “Iran has to retaliate, in their mind,” adding that the region had reignited into chaos: “The Middle East is back on fire in a way that has now expanded.”
He then shifted focus to the question of international mediation, posing, “Now who is the voice in the world that can negotiate some type of agreement in this? Who holds the moral authority? Who holds the ability to do that?” He went on to say, “Because we are not seen as a neutral actor, and we maybe never were. I don’t want to tell anybody that. I think there’s a lot of people that say, ‘You always lean one way in this.’ But I think there was at least an attempt to be somewhat of the arbitrator in this. We saw President Carter do it with Begin and Sadat. We’ve had certain wins along the way that were actually mutually beneficial both ways. Now I ask who that is. And, I mean, consistently over and over again we’re gonna have to face the reality, it might be the Chinese.”
These comments came in the aftermath of Thursday night’s Israeli airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear and military assets, which led to a barrage of Iranian missiles directed at Yerushalayim and Tel Aviv in retaliation.
Following the strikes, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed retribution against Israel, threatening a “bitter and painful” fate for the Jewish state after several top-ranking military commanders were killed in the Israeli offensive.
Scrutiny surrounding Walz’s connection to China has intensified over the past year. Breitbart News contributor Peter Schweizer reported in August that Walz had ties to “secret police stations that the Chinese have here in the United States.”
Further adding to the controversy, a Breitbart report in September noted that Walz—who previously worked in education—had spent time teaching in China in 1989 and had made repeated trips to the country in subsequent years. As the leader of student excursions to China, his relationship with the Chinese Communist Party has come under increasing examination by House Republicans since he was selected as Kamala Harris’s running mate.

{Matzav.com}