Stormy affair with Tim Walz left Chinese official’s daughter suicidal: Report

Kamala Harris’s running mate and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz had a love affair with the daughter of a top Chinese Communist Party official during his teaching stint in China in 1989, according to a report in the Daily Mail. Jenna Wang, 59, said the stormy love affair with Walz had left her devastated and suicidal.
The development comes days before the November 5 US presidential polls, where Harris is pitted against Republican Donald Trump. It also comes at a time when Walz has faced backlash for falsely claiming that he was in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
Walz served as a high school English teacher in Foshan in China’s Guangdong province before moving to the US and taking up politics. He is now the governor of Minnesota.
In her interview with the Daily Mail, Wang said her first interaction with Walz was when she attended one of his lectures to brush up on her pronunciation. She claimed Walz removed her headphones and whispered into her ear, “You are very beautiful”.
The duo soon started meeting over walks and went to dances in the evening. She said Walz would travel to Hong Kong in the weekends and bring back luxury gifts like Ray-Ban sunglasses and jewellery.
Wang claimed their relationship blossomed in secrecy as her father would never have approved of her association with a Western man. The passionate relationship led the then 24-year-old Wang to dream about marriage and a new life in the US.
“Tim Walz was very passionate and very romantic… The fact we couldn’t touch or kiss in public just made it all the more exciting and intense when we were finally alone,” Wang said.
However, she claimed there was never any proposal for marriage from Walz. Wang claimed they soon started having heated arguments over whether she really loved Walz or merely wanted to obtain a US visa.
She said the treatment eventually left her angry and suicidal. The ill-fated romance saw Wang fleeing China for Italy.
“Knowing that he wasn’t going to marry me made me feel cheap and common, as if I was being treated like a prostitute… I was deeply insulted, hurt, and I had to leave that place, because many people knew that we had a relationship,” Wang said.
Walz married Gwen Whipple after returning to the US in 1993. They have two children.
With Walz now the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Wang said he doesn’t have the “character and integrity to do one of the most important jobs in the world”.