周二晚上的辩论中，民主黨副總統提名人蒂姆·沃爾茨（Tim Walz），也就是明尼蘇達州的州長，被逼著對他有爭議的中國之旅以及其行程上的誤述進行解釋。
他原先提到自己在1989年春天身處香港並參與了天安門廣場事件。然而現在我們獲知沃爾茨實際上直到同年八月才抵達中國。CBS新聞主持人瑪格麗特·布倫南（Margaret Brennan）對這一矛盾點提出質疑。
在眾議院的聽證會上，沃爾茨表示自己出身自一個小型農村，習慣與朋友騎腳踏車直到街燈亮起。他在17歲時加入了國民警衛隊，並幫忙耕作家庭農場，隨後利用GI法學會成為一名教師。
他繼續解釋說，在1989年夏季，他獲得了前往中國的機會——那是一次距今35年前的旅程。接著他回國並啟動了一個項目，旨在帶領年輕人到訪中國。「我們攜手運輸籃球隊、棒球隊以及舞蹈團員往返中國。」沃爾茨提到，他們前往的目的「是要學習」。
他坦承：「我的社區認識我，我曾經在哪裡。我要首先向大家表明，我對自己的社區投入了心力，盡力做好每一件事，但我並非完美，也有時會犯錯。」
沃爾茨說自己從來沒有離開過為了社區人民服務的初衷。「經常我在口頭上表達得很多，往往被言語所困擾，但參與其中，它對我人生帶來了影響，讓我學到了許多關於中國的事物。」沃爾茨也提及，他接受並歡迎人們對於這一行程的不同評論。
沃爾茨表示，如果當選的美國總統唐納德·特朗普（Donald Trump）在他們前往的一次旅程中出席，情況會截然不同。「我敢肯定，他在那裡不會讚揚習近平關於COVID的表現。他也不會啟動最終失利的貿易戰。」沃爾茨補充道。
這就是試圖去理解世界的意義所在，以及為社區付出，然後把自我展現出來讓人們了解實情。 「我在教學上做得很好，在軍隊服務良好，或者成為一名有道德價值的眾議員。這些是人們真正關心的價值觀。」
然而，布倫南質疑沃爾茨，再次強調了這一問題並要求他解釋矛盾之處。「我只說過，當那個夏天來到，我在語言上有誤差，」沃爾茨表示。「我只想告訴你，我是先在中國香港地區，然後去到了大陸。在那里，我學到了許多關於治理的需要。」
自从他成為拜登政府副總統卡玛拉·哈里斯（Kamala Harris）的竞选伙伴之后，沃爾茨與中国的联系引起了外界关注。
眾議院監察委員會主席詹姆士·科默（James Comer）啟動了一項調查，關注沃爾茨和中共黨系的關係。 科默指出，沃爾茨与中国实体有所合作，他可能成為中國共产党的“精英捕捉策略”的目標，這种策略旨在利用政治、文化和學術圈中的關鍵人物來影響美國，使之利益歸于中共政府而傷害美國。
据报道，在1990年代，當沃爾茨作為教師時，他曾組織聯盟高中學生前往中國旅行，費用由中国政府支付。
在2016年的眾議院聽證會上，沃爾茨曾表示自己“至少去过中国几十次”。他在一份專注農業的出版物中提到：「我差不多去了30次。」然而，哈里斯和沃爾茨競選團隊的一名發言人最近向明尼蘇達州公共電台表示，這一數據更接近15次。
新闻来源：www.foxnews.com
原文地址：Walz forced to correct record on whether he was in China for the Tiananmen Square protests
新闻日期：2024-10-01
原文摘要：
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, was forced to answer questions about his controversial travel to China and misstatements about those trips during Tuesday night’s debate. Walz has said he was in Hong Kong during the deadly Tiananmen Square protests in the spring of 1989. But Minnesota Public Radio and other media outlets are now reporting that Walz actually did not travel to China until August of that year. CBS News moderator Margaret Brennan asked Walz to explain the discrepancy. COMER SUBPOENAS DHS FOR RECORDS RELATING TO WALZ'S ALLEGED TIES TO CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY "Look, I grew up in a small rural Nebraska town, a town that you rode your bike with your buddies till the streetlights come on, and I’m proud of that service," a visibly shaky Walz said. "I joined the National Guard at 17, worked on family farms and then I used the GI bill to become a teacher." Walz said that, as a "passionate young teacher," he had "the opportunity in the summer of ’89 to travel to China — 35 years ago. "I came back home and then started a program to take young people there. We would take basketball teams. We would take baseball teams. We would take dancers. And we would go back and forth to China," Walz said, noting the trips were "to try and learn." "Look, my community knows who I am. They saw where I was at. I will be the first to tell you I have poured my heart into my community, and I’ve tried to do the best I can, but I’ve not been perfect," Walz continued. "And I’m a knucklehead at times." Walz said his commitment "from the beginning" has been to "make sure that I’m there for the people." "Many times, I will talk a lot. I will get caught up in rhetoric. But being there, the impact it made, the difference it made in my life, I learned a lot about China," Walz said. "I hear the critiques of this." Walz said he would "make the case that Donald Trump should have come on one of those trips with us." "I guarantee you he wouldn't be praising XI Jinping about COVID. And I guarantee you he wouldn't start a trade war that he ends up losing," Walz said. "So, this is about trying to understand the world. It's about trying to do the best you can for your community, and then it's putting yourself out there and letting your folks understand what it is. "My commitment, whether it be through teaching, which I was good at, or whether it was being a good soldier or was being a good member of Congress. Those are the things that I think are the values that people care about." But Brennan pushed back, reminding Walz of the question and again asking him to explain the discrepancy. "All I said on this was, as I got there that summer and misspoke on this," Walz said. "So, I will just — that's what I've said. So, I was in Hong Kong and China during the democracy protests, went in and, from that, I learned a lot of what needed to be in in governance." Walz's ties to China have come under the microscope since he became Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate. HOUSE OVERSIGHT INVESTIGATING WALZ OVER 'LONGSTANDING CONNECTIONS' TO CHINA House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., launched an investigation into Walz's alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Comer revealed that Walz has "engaged and partnered with" Chinese entities, making him "susceptible" to the CCP’s strategy of "elite capture," which seeks to co-opt influential figures in elite political, cultural and academic circles to "influence the United States to the benefit of the communist regime and the detriment of Americans." Comer has pointed to reports that Walz, while working as a teacher in the 1990s, organized a trip to China for Alliance High School students. The costs were reportedly "paid by the Chinese government." TIM WALZ SAID HE WENT TO CHINA 'DOZENS' OF TIMES, NOW HIS CAMPAIGN SAYS ITS 'CLOSER TO 15' Comer is investigating Educational Travel Adventures, Inc., a private company Walz created in 1994 that was led by Walz and coordinated annual student trips to China until 2003. The company reportedly "dissolved four days after he took congressional office in 2007." Comer said Walz has traveled to China an estimated "30 times." Comer has issued a subpoena to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, compelling him to produce DHS records related to Walz's alleged ties to the CCP. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Walz, meanwhile, during a congressional hearing in 2016, said he had "been to China dozens of times." "I've been there about 30 times," Walz told an agriculture-focused publication in 2016. However, a Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson recently told Minnesota Public Radio the number was "closer to 15 times."
