Overview

• At a June 13 Center for American Progress event, Walz questioned U.S. neutrality in Middle East negotiations and said China might hold the moral authority to broker an Israel-Iran truce
• The former vice presidential nominee’s remark has renewed attention to his 1990s lessons praising Chinese communism as a model of equality
• Critics have pointed to Walz’s support for a Minnesota medical research institute that collaborates with a firm labeled by the Pentagon as a Chinese military-linked company
• Washington Free Beacon reporting challenged Walz’s claim that he was in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre when contemporaneous records place him in Nebraska
• The Center for American Progress faces scrutiny over founder John Podesta’s reported ties to Tung Chee-hwa, a senior Chinese Communist Party official