With the United States and China
engaged in a heated trade war, the US-China Peoples Friendship
Association (USCPFA) scheduled its national convention in Minneapolis.
Minnesota’s
soybean trade made it China’s best leverage against President Trump’s
tariffs and the regime was fortunate to have one of its own in the
governor’s residency.
Gov. Tim Walz was the highest ranking
elected official with the broadest ties to China. And so it surprised no
one when the US-China Peoples Friendship Association listed him as one
of its speakers at the convention alongside notable Communist influence
operation figures.
Earlier that year, Walz had gone on a foreign
trip to Asia along with his Lt. Gov: leaving no one in charge of
Minnesota. While the trip was ostensibly undertaken to find alternative
trading partners to China, it was actually a propaganda move to stir up
opposition to Trump’s trade war.
In September 2019, Gov. Walz returned claiming that the state’s farmers ‘remain in desperate need of a U.S. trade deal with China.’
“There’s
just no substitute for 1.6 billion consumers who are hungry to get our
China trade negotiations normalized,” he claimed.
And next month
in October, it was time for the USCPFA convention. While the USCPFA
represents itself as an alliance of ordinary citizens seeking better
relations, it had started out as a Communist front group. Revolution
magazine wrote that “Communists, members of the Revolutionary Union (and
later the Revolutionary Communist Party) were instrumental in the
formation of the earliest local Friendship Associations in 1971 and
played a significant role in the creation of the national association
and in the building of locals across the country.”
In his book ‘Red Destinies’, historian Colin B. Burke wrote that the
USCPFA “like the Party’s front organizations of the 1930s and 1940s it
was advertised as a liberal, non-political organization supporting peace
and cultural understanding. But in 1971, the founders had other
missions: Advance the interests of Communist China and world communism.”
When
Gov. Tim Walz showed up at the USCPFA convention, the most obvious sign
of the organization’s close ties to China’s influence operation came
from Walz’s fellow speaker. As Natalie Winters of Steven Bannon’s War Room first reported, Walz’s fellow speaker at the convention
was Li Xiaolin, the president of the “Chinese People’s Association for
Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), which leads a billion-dollar
Chinese influence operation flagged by the U.S. State Department for
‘directly and malignly influencing” American politicians.’”...........To Read More...
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Monday, August 12, 2024
Tim Walz's 30-Year Relationship With China
By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog
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