The Minnesota governor spent about a year teaching high school in China in the late 1980s through Harvard University’s WorldTeach programme.
After returning to the US, Walz met his wife, the former Gwen Whipple, while both were teaching at a high school in Nebraska.
In 1994, the two set up a company called Educational Travel Adventures that offered summer trips to China for their students. In 2007, Walz was a fellow at Macau Polytechnic University.
“The American people deserve to fully understand how deep Governor Walz’s relationship with China goes,” said Comer, referencing Walz’s 30 visits to China since 1989.
Comer, a US congressman since 2016, is no stranger to championing House probes against political rivals.
As of June this year, the panel announced it would persist in its search for evidence of Fauci’s criminal wrongdoing.
The Walz probe comes just days after Republican congressman Jim Banks of Indiana wrote to Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin urging the governor’s travel to China during his 24-year-long military service be investigated.
Trump on Thursday said his campaign’s strategy to win voters in the 2024 presidential race was “hitting a nerve”.
“I think this is a different kind of a race,” he explained. “All we have to do is define our opponent as being a communist or a socialist or somebody that’s going to destroy our country.”
When asked how he would manage ties with Beijing, Trump predicted: “I think we’ll have a great relationship with China.”
Comer in his letter to Wray asked if the FBI had given “any warnings or advice” to Walz “about US political figures being targeted by or recruited for CCP influence operations”.
The letter claimed Walz attended a US-China Peoples Friendship Association event in 2019. However, the Chinese embassy press release for the non-profit group’s event dated October 25, 2019, did not mention Walz’s participation.