Tim Walz says he misspoke when he claimed he was in China during Tiananmen Square massacre
At his first campaign stop since the vice presidential debate, Tim Walz sought to clarify comments he has made about his travel to China and Hong Kong in 1989 as bloody pro-democracy protests took place.
Walz admitted during the debate that he had previously misspoken in 2014 when he said he was in mainland China between April and June 1989, during the Tiananmen Square protests, which took place between April 15 and June 4 of that year. After that concession, however, Walz repeated the mistatement, saying,
Tim Walz says he had his dates wrong, admits he didn’t travel to China until August 1989
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