Republican Marco Rubio calls for investigation into Tim Walz after romance with CCP official’s daughter
A top Republican is demanding that Tim Walz be investigated after his past relationship with the daughter of a Chinese Communist Party official was revealed by DailyMail.com.
The Minnesota governor and Kamala Harris’ running mate had the affair while he was living and teaching in China in 1989.
Walz became romantically involved with Jenna Wang, 59, who claims the VP hopefully showered her with gifts and seduced her at his poky staff compound in Guangdong province.
The couple was sexually active, traveled together and went on dates often, Wang told DailyMail.com, and they hid it all from her father, who was then a high-ranking CCP official.
Now that the close ties between Walz and Wang have come to light, Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida is demanding more information.
He says Walz should be investigated about his relationship with Wang because “voters deserve to know” before the election in eight days.
Jenna on the beach of Hainan Island in southern China when she visited Walz
‘If the story is in today [Daily Mail] It is true that Tim Walz dated the daughter of a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party official and remained in contact with her for years afterward,” Rubio posted on X.
“If you want to be vice president of the United States, voters deserve to know about every link you have to the CCP.”
Rubio currently serves as vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and also serves on the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
However, it remains unclear whether he will insist on further investigation through these committees.
His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Jenna Wang, pictured then and now, revealed that the two were forced to hide their relationship from her father, who allegedly disowned her for fraternizing with a Westerner.
Tim Walz joined the staff of the nonprofit WorldTeach in China in 1989. He is pictured with his students during his teaching year in China, taken by a mutual friend and delivered to Wang
Jenna is the daughter of CCP official Bin Hui, who died in 1999
Wang’s father Bin Hui, who at the time of the meetings between her and Walz, was a key CCP official and chairman of a trade union in her hometown of Guilin.
‘Tim was very passionate and very romantic. I still remember dancing with him to our favorite song, Careless Whisper,” Wang told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.
“The fact that we couldn’t touch or kiss in public only made it more exciting and intense when we were finally alone.”
‘We were very much in love and I wanted to marry him and start a family. When it didn’t happen, I felt very unhappy and sad. Tim’s behavior was very selfish.’
Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speaks during a campaign stop, Monday, October 28, 2024, in Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Wang admitted that her father would be very unhappy if he knew she was seeing a Westerner, so she and Walz had to keep their relationship a secret.
She described meeting Walz at one of his lectures, where she said he complimented her beauty.
Although she knew that this would not last long because of her strict father, who did not want her to fraternize with Westerners.
“My father would have been very angry and sad if he had found out.”
‘Because of social conventions I could never stay overnight. It was very repressive. Couples walked around the city like robots,” Wang said.
‘But we talked for hours, we stayed in bed, we had sex. He kept buying me presents.”
Walz – pictured in a 1990 photo he sent to Wang – is said to have fallen head over heels in love with the handsome, highly educated English teacher from nearby High School No. 8 just months after arriving in Foshan.
After returning to China in 1992, the couple’s relationship deteriorated.
She wanted to get married and move to Nebraska, where Walz was staying at the time.
However, that fell through and Walz felt like she wanted a route to get to the US
‘This was very insulting. “I told him, it’s both or nothing,” she said. “I didn’t give up my life and my position to move to Nebraska, a cold place in the middle of nowhere that most Chinese had never heard of.”
Tim Walz on a later trip to China
“I gave up being with Tim, getting married and having a family.”
“Knowing he wouldn’t marry me made me feel cheap and mean, like I was being treated like a prostitute.”