Tim Walz makes misleading claims related to Tiananmen massacre | AP News
WEB1 day ago · WASHINGTON (AP) — Multiple news reports indicate that Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz misleadingly claimed he was in Hong Kong during the turbulence surrounding the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, part of a broader pattern of inaccuracies that Republicans hope to exploit. At Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Walz was asked about misleading people and he ...
Walz’s claim that he was in Hong Kong during Tiananmen Square …
WEB1 day ago · Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said on Tuesday he “misspoke” when he previously said he’d visited Hong Kong in the spring of 1989 during protests in China’s Tiananmen Square but insisted he ...
Walz admits misspeaking when he said he was in Hong Kong …
WEB1 day ago · The Minnesota governor said that he had been in Hong Kong during the summer of the Tiananmen Square protests, but not in June 1989, when the crackdown took place in and around the square in ...
Walz Says He ‘Misspoke’ About Being in Hong Kong During Tiananmen …
WEB1 day ago · Asked by a debate moderator on Tuesday why Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota had said that he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre in June of 1989, when he had in reality been in his ...
Tim Walz Said He Was in Hong Kong in 1989 During Tiananmen.
WEB1 day ago · Mr. Walz also said he was in Hong Kong “on June 4, 1989” during a radio interview in 2019, and during a 2009 hearing of a Congressional-Executive Commission on China that commemorated the ...
Hong Kong Remembered the Tiananmen Massacre, Until It …
WEBJun 4, 2023 · After the Chinese military cleared student protesters occupying Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds and possibly thousands, some student leaders in Beijing were smuggled to safety via Hong Kong.
Silence and heavy security in China and Hong Kong mark 35th …
WEBJun 5, 2024 · Silence and heavy security in China and Hong Kong mark 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown. Rows of flameless candles flickered in the windows of the US Consulate in Hong Kong on Tuesday to mark the 35th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigils remain silenced but overseas they …
WEBJun 3, 2023 · Hong Kongers living overseas are helping to keep the flame of remembrance alive for the victims of China’s Tiananmen massacre as authorities in a city that once hosted huge annual vigils...
Arrests and tight security in Hong Kong on Tiananmen Square ... - NBC News
WEBJun 4, 2023 · Hong Kong police detained eight people, including activists and artists, on the eve of the 34th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, a move that signals the city’s shrinking...
Tiananmen Square: Hong Kong police detain activists on ... - BBC
WEBJun 4, 2023 · Police in Hong Kong have detained several pro-democracy activists on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Authorities have banned public commemoration of the 1989 incident,...