The Post has learned that Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz had a romantic relationship with the daughter of a Chinese Communist Party employee during his teaching career in Foshan, which became so violent that he brought her to the brink of suicide. Ta.
Jenna Wang, 59, told the Post in a phone interview Monday that she fell head over heels for the now-Minnesota governor when she was a young high school English teacher in Foshan, Guangdong province, China.
Ms. Wang expected her passionate affair in 1989 to end in a marriage proposal, but instead it ended in a breakup that led her to consider taking her own life.
“I was deeply insulted and hurt and had to leave because so many people knew that we had an affair,” Wang explained, adding that Waltz had been with her. He said he had hinted that he intended to get married.
That included sending Wang a letter and having a passport-sized photo sent to Denver after she returned to the U.S. the following summer, she said, adding that Walz helped her obtain a visa. He hinted that he gave it to me.
“He lacked the character of a man, a responsible human being who had served in education and the military,” she added. “I thought he loved me too. I loved him.”
The Daily Mail first reported Wang’s claims that she fled China to Italy just a few years after her ill-fated romance with Waltz.
According to an open letter Wang wrote to warn American voters about Walz, the two were “like a couple” at first — under the watchful eye of her father, Binh Hui, a worker. It is said that they avoided each other and drank tea in private and held hands. A labor union leader in his hometown of Guilin.
Wang told the Post that Hui would have been upset to see her daughter fall in love with a Westerner.
Walz, now 60, arrived in China through the nonprofit organization World Teach, and the two connected while Wang taught at a nearby middle school.
The young lovers enjoyed karaoke together, and Waltz gave Wang gifts including gold jewelry and high-waisted blue jeans.
But since then, he has become “the kind of man a mother would warn her daughter not to interact with,” Wang’s open letter added.
“Indeed, you did not make a marriage promise before returning to China, but marriage was what I envisioned,” she wrote. “Marriage is also what you led me to believe, and what you led others to believe, including your female colleague with whom I had tea.”
Wang said the two had a disagreement over whether she truly loved Waltz or just wanted to get a visa. She said this was “a shock” as she had intended to give up her entire life in China to join Waltz’s activities. Based in Nebraska.
“I had given up on being with Tim, getting married and starting a family,” Wang told the Daily Mail.
“When I found out he wasn’t going to marry me, I felt cheap and ordinary, like I was being treated like a prostitute.”
Although the two never met again, Walz returned to China in 1993 as director of an annual summer student program that connects high school students from Nebraska and Minnesota with educational institutions in China.
The future governor of the Land of 10,000 Lakes married his wife, Gwen Whipple, the year after he returned to the United States.
The wedding took place on June 4, the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, so the Walts “were able to have a date that they’ll always remember,” his wife later recalled.
“Tim lied about Tiananmen Square, but he also lied about other things,” Wang told the Daily Mail.
“This is a very important moment in history, and it appears that these individuals do not have the character and integrity to carry out one of the most important jobs in the world.”
Representatives for the Harris-Waltz campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
