Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz had a love affair with the daughter of a Chinese Communist Party official during his teaching stint in Foshan that was so stormy it drove her to the brink of suicide, The Post has learned.
Jenna Wang, 59, told The Post in a phone interview on Monday that she had fallen head over heels for the now-Minnesota governor when he was a young high school English instructor in Foshan, Guangdong Province, China.
Wang expected the passionate 1989 affair to end in a proposal — 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-sized 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 fled China for Italy only a few years after her ill-fated romance 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.
Hui would have been upset to have seen his daughter falling for a Westerner, Wang told The Post.
Walz, now 60, arrived in China through the nonprofit 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.
But then he became “the type of man against whom a mother warns her daughter not to get involved” with, Wang’s open 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.”
They 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.
The future Land of 10,000 Lakes governor 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.”
Reps for the Harris-Walz campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.