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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 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-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 fled
China for Italy only a few years after her ill-fated romance with Walz.
According to an open letter Wang also authored and shared with The Post,
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, adds Wangs letter, which she published on Medium
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 wasnt 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 hell always remember, his
wife later recalled.
Tim lied about Tiananmen Square and hes 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 and Minnesota governors office did not
immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Let's go Brandon!