When the Kamala campaign first picked the extremist Gov. Tim Walz over the more moderate Gov. Josh Shapiro, Freedom Center Investigates ran an expose of Walz’s 30-year relationship with Communist China.

The question is how this links up to Walz’s affection for socialism?

The governor, who had nearly brought his state to the brink of bankruptcy with non-stop, corrupt and wasteful spending (of which the $250 million Somali ‘Feeding the Future’ welfare fraud is only a small part) had famously assorted at a Kamala event that, “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”

Now Alana Goodman at the Free Beacon uncovered a Walz comment from his China period that echoes it.

As a high school teacher in the 1990s, Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz appeared to extol life under Chinese communism, telling his students that it is a system in which “everyone shares” and gets free food and housing.

“It means that everyone is the same and everyone shares,” Walz said during a lesson on China’s communist system in November 1991. “The doctor and the construction worker make the same. The Chinese government and the place they work for provide housing and 14 kg or about 30 pounds of rice per month. They get food and housing.”

Obviously the notion that China’s Communist elite and workers live the same is a lie. And Walz, like a lot of American lefties, either fell for the lie or chose to repeat it while knowing that it is a lie, but the propaganda that Walz was pushing on impressionable students sounds a lot like his rhetoric about socialism.

Was Walz always a socialist or did his indoctrination in Communist China help make him one?