副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯的竞选伙伴、明尼苏达州州长蒂姆·沃尔茨承认自己对中国访问的次数少于他之前在国会听证和媒体访谈中所表述的那样高得多。“我曾去中国数十次，”沃尔茨在2016年的国会听证会上说。而同一年间的一篇关注农业的文章报道中，沃尔茨自述：“我去了大约30次中国。”然而，在最近与《明尼苏达公共电台》的交流里，哈里斯-沃尔茨竞选团队承认这一数字更接近于“大约15次”。
这次修正出现在共和党批评者对其与中国和其执政共产党的潜在联系持续关注的时候。本月早些时候，众议院监督与问责委员会主席、肯塔基州共和党议员詹姆斯·库默重申了对联邦调查局(FBI)需向其提供有关沃尔茨声称过去与中国共产党实体或官员的互动文件的压力。
明尼苏达州议员认为，与其任命的有中国共产党关联的人可能会暴露副总统在国家安全方面的弱点。根据沃尔茨自己的证词，他于1989年天安门广场事件期间首次前往中国。作为哈佛大学“世界教学”项目的一名参与者，沃尔茨有机会在中国和年轻学生一起居住并教授他们一年。
据说沃尔茨很喜欢他的中国之行，以至于在他在美国转换教职生涯后，继续每年带学生们再次赴中国旅行。他甚至与妻子格温在1993年的某次旅行中以他们的蜜月地身份去了一趟中国。这些学生年复一年的旅行发生在2000年初之前，此时沃尔茨开始竞选公职。
当沃尔茨于2006年参加国会竞选时，他的竞选网站提到了他在澳门理工学院的工作经历，该学院与中国共产党有联系。“我们所需要的是教育、军事和我在中国推动文化交流时的真实解决方案。”在与共和党众议员吉尔·古特纳赫的辩论中，沃尔茨同样强调了自己在中国的经历。
然而，在成为哈里斯的竞选搭档后，明尼苏达公共广播电台开始验证他声称进行过的“数十次”中国之旅的真实性。最终证实只有大约12次是实际发生的。在被要求提供证明其余旅行确实在进行时，竞选团队并没有提供文件证据，而是承认沃尔茨此前夸大了自己前往中国的次数，实际上的次数更接近于“大约15次”，而非他说过的“数十次”。
除了疑似虚报中国之行的次数外，沃尔茨还被指称在描述陆军国民警卫队的军衔时有误导行为。“我是退役命令士官长。”在2006年竞选国会期间，沃尔茨如是声称。尽管他曾有过短暂担任该职位的经历，但他的退休让他未能保持这一军衔，并且也无法部署到中东地区作战。
另外有人指责沃尔茨和其妻子有关试管婴儿使用情况的虚假声明也引起了争议。据一个曾与沃尔茨一起服役的退伍军人透露给节目主持人梅根·凯莉，他们认为沃尔茨是个“习惯性说谎者”。
“他是个习惯性的说谎者，撒谎无处不在。连些不合逻辑的事也都撒谎。”福克斯新闻数字频道向哈里斯-沃尔茨竞选团队提出采访要求，但截至发稿前未收到回复。
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原文地址：Tim Walz said he went to China ‘dozens’ of times, now his campaign says its ‘closer to 15’
新闻日期：2024-10-01
原文摘要：
Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, said he traveled to China much less than he had initially highlighted in congressional hearings and media interviews. "I have been to China dozens of times," Walz said during a 2016 congressional hearing. "I've been there about 30 times," Walz told an agriculture-focused publication the same year. However, a Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson recently acknowledged to Minnesota Public Radio that the number was "closer to 15 times." The revision comes amid growing scrutiny from GOP critics over Walz's potential ties to the People's Republic of China and its ruling Communist Party. Earlier this month, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., sent a letter renewing pressure on the FBI to produce documents related to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entities or officials that Walz has purportedly engaged with in the past. WALZ APPOINTEE WITH APPARENT CCP TIES COULD EXPOSE POTENTIAL VEEP'S NATIONAL SECURITY WEAKNESS, LAWMAKER SAYS According to Walz's own testimony, he first went to China in 1989 amid the Tiananmen Square uprising. Walz was part of the first delegation of American teachers to ever go to the communist nation during the trip. He was a participant in Harvard's WorldTeach program, which gave Walz the opportunity to live and teach young students in China for a year. Walz apparently enjoyed his time in China so much that after transitioning his teaching career to the U.S., Walz continued to take annual trips back to China with his students. Walz eventually set up a company with his wife Gwen, called Educational Travel Adventures, Inc., which was dedicated to taking students on trips to China and other international destinations. The two even honeymooned in China on one of their trips in 1993. Walz's annual trips with students took place between 1993 and the early 2000s, before he began running for public office. FANS BOO TIM WALZ AS HE LEAVES MICHIGAN-MINNESOTA GAME: ‘GET OUT OF HERE’ Walz and his wife dissolved their student-travel company after he won his seat in Congress in 2006. However, Walz's China experience was a matter of pride for the now-vice presidential candidate when he was trying to join Congress. Walz's campaign website at the time, for instance, highlighted his work as a visiting fellow at Macau Polytechnic University, a university in China with ties to the CCP. "What we need in education, what we need in the military, and what we need when I'm fostering cultural exchanges with China, is real solutions," Walz also said when he debated incumbent GOP Rep. Gil Gutknecht in 2006, once again highlighting his work in China. However, after Walz became Harris' running mate this year, Minnesota Public Radio began trying to verify the "dozens" of trips he claimed to have gone on. In the end, they could only verify that about 12 of them had actually occurred. FOX NEWS MEDIA WILL PRESENT SPECIAL LIVE PROGRAMMING OF VANCE-WALZ DEBATE When the news outlet reached out to the Harris campaign for documentation proving the rest of Walz's trips did indeed take place, instead of offering such proof they acknowledged that Walz had previously exaggerated the number of trips he took to China, and it was actually "closer to 15 times" not "dozens of times." Besides apparently misrepresenting how many times he traveled to China, Walz has also been accused of misrepresenting his rank in the Army National Guard as well. "I'm a retired command sergeant major," Walz asserted while running for Congress in 2006. However, while Walz did serve briefly with that rank, he retired too early to keep it. Walz's retirement also prevented him from deploying to the Middle East, another point of criticism against the vice presidential candidate who has suggested that he saw combat. Meanwhile, it has been alleged that Walz and his wife have made false assertions about their use of IVF as well. A former national guard veteran who reportedly served with Walz told talk show host Megyn Kelly that they think Walz is a "habitual liar." CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP "He's a habitual liar. He lies about everything. He lies about stuff that doesn't make sense." Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris-Walz campaign but did not hear back prior to publication time.
