Jenna Wang, the daughter of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official, has said she had a hidden romance with vice presidential candidate Tim Walz during his time as a teacher in China.

In an exclusive interview with the Daily mail Released Monday, Wang said she and Walz, the current governor of Minnesota and Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, had a passionate affair with promises of a future that ultimately went unfulfilled.

Newsweek has reached out to the Harris-Walz campaign via email for comment. The campaign did not respond to the Daily Mail’s request for comment.

Wang, now 59, said she met Walz in 1989 when he taught English at the No. 1 high school in Foshan, Guangdong province, through the nonprofit WorldTeach.

At the time, Wang was a 24-year-old English teacher at No. 8 Middle School and despite the risks posed by her father’s high rank within the Communist Party, the couple began a discreet relationship.

“Tim was very passionate and very romantic. I still remember dancing with him to our favorite song, ‘Careless Whisper,’” Wang told the Mail.

Because public displays of affection could jeopardize her family’s reputation, Wang said she and Walz maintained their bond behind closed doors.

She recounted intimate moments at Walz’s accommodations, where they listened to music, talked for hours and shared their dreams for the future.

“The fact that we couldn’t touch or kiss each other in public made it all the more exciting and intense when we were finally alone,” Wang said.

She added: ‘We were very much in love and I wanted to marry him and start a family. When it didn’t happen, I felt very unhappy and sad. Tim’s behavior was very selfish.’

In 1992, the future vice presidential candidate returned to China, where tensions escalated over Wang’s desire for marriage and life in the United States. However, Walz is said to have questioned her intentions and wondered if she was interested in him or simply a route to a US visa. “This was very insulting,” Wang told the newspaper Mail. “I told him, it’s both or nothing.”

Republican Senator Marco Rubio, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called for an investigation into the revelations, citing possible national security implications.

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Rubio has yet to confirm whether he will launch an official investigation into Walz’s past relationship with Wang or other broader connections.

Newsweek has contacted Rubio’s office for comment via email.

Walz’s stay in China has sparked controversy before, most notably because he made a misleading statement about his stay in China during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

While Walz previously claimed to have been in Hong Kong during the uprising, later reports indicated he did not arrive in China until months after the protests ended.

Walz, who raised the issue during the vice presidential debate earlier this month, described his previous comments as “knuckleheaded.”

Wang, now a teacher and translator in Europe, said she felt compelled to speak out because of what she described as Walz’s “selfish” behavior and lack of transparency.

“Tim lied about Tiananmen Square, and he lied about other things too,” she told the newspaper Mail. “This is a very crucial moment in history, and a man like this doesn’t seem to have the character and integrity to do one of the most important jobs in the world.”