Jenna Wang, 59, told The NY Post in a phone interview this week that she
had fallen head over heels for the Kamala Harris VP pick when he was a young
high school English instructor in Foshan, Guangdong province, China.
Wang had expected the passionate 1989 affair to end in marriage but
instead, it resulted in a breakup that made her consider taking her own life.
“I was deeply insulted, hurt and I had to leave that place, because many
people knew that we had a relationship,” Wang explained, saying that Walz had
implied that he intended to marry her.
That included sending Wang letters after returning to the US over the
following summer and even asking for a passport-size photo of her to be sent
back to Denver, she said, implying that Walz was helping her to obtain a visa.
“His lack of character, as a man, a responsible person who had worked in
education or [the] military,” she added. “I thought he also loved me. I loved
him.”
The Daily Mail first reported on the allegations by Wang, who said she
left China for Italy only a few years after her bad relationship with Walz.
According to an “open letter” Wang also authored seeking to warn the
American electorate about Walz, the two were “like husband and wife” at first,
sharing tea and holding hands privately, out of the watchful eye of her father,
Bin Hui, a labor union leader in her hometown of Guilin.
She said that her father Hui would have been upset to have seen his
daughter falling for a Westerner.
Walz, now 60, arrived in China through the nonprofit organization
WorldTeach and the two connected while Wang taught at a nearby middle school.
The young lovers enjoyed karaoke together, and Walz showered Wang with
gifts including gold jewelry and high-waisted blue jeans, she claims.
But then he became “the type of man against whom a mother warns
her daughter not to get involved” with, Wang’s letter adds.
“While, it is true, you had not promised marriage before you had arrived
back in China, marriage was what I had assumed,” she wrote. “Too, marriage was
what you had led me to believe — as well as led others to believe, including
that female colleague of yours with whom we had tea.”
According to Wang, the two had a disagreement over whether she really
loved Walz or merely wanted to obtain a visa, which she said came as a “shock”
because she had been willing to give up her whole life in China to join Walz in
his home state of Nebraska.
“I was giving it up to be with Tim, to get married and start a family,”
Wang told the Daily Mail.
“Knowing now that he wasn’t going to marry me made me feel cheap and
common, as if I was being treated like a prostitute.”
The pair never met again, but Walz returned to China in 1993 as
the head of an annual summer student program connecting Nebraska and Minnesota
high schoolers with Chinese institutions.
Walz married his wife, Gwen Whipple, the following year after returning
to the US.
The wedding took place on June 4, the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen
Square massacre, so the Walzes could “have a date he’ll always remember,” his
wife later recalled.
“Tim lied about Tiananmen Square and he’s lied about other things,” Wang
told the Daily Mail.
“This is a very crucial moment in history and a man like this does not
appear to have the character and integrity to do one of the most important jobs
in the world.”
Representatives for the Harris-Walz campaign are yet to respond to the
allegations as at press time .
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