{"id":109300,"date":"2024-10-01T23:49:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109300"},"modified":"2024-10-01T23:49:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T16:49:07","slug":"walzs-claim-that-he-was-in-china-during-tiananmen-square-protests-undercut-by-unearthed-newspaper-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109300","title":{"rendered":"Walz\u2019s claim that he was in China during Tiananmen Square protests undercut by unearthed newspaper reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj4w9v001l65npb0o6byld@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Newly unearthed reports contradict previous claims made by Minnesota Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/28\/politics\/tim-walz-vice-president-debate\/index.html\">Tim Walz<\/a> about his travel to China, including a claim that the Democratic vice presidential nominee\u00a0traveled to\u00a0China\u00a0for a teaching position\u00a0in 1989 during the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests that ended in hundreds of protesters killed by the Chinese government.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh00093b6m1vddei76@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The discrepancy over Walz\u2019s relationship to China comes ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/01\/politics\/what-to-watch-vp-debate\/index.html\">Tuesday\u2019s vice presidential<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>debate in New York<\/a>, where Republican allies of Ohio Sen. JD Vance have signaled that the GOP vice presidential nominee may use Walz\u2019s history in China to attack his rival.\u00a0Walz regularly organized and chaperoned trips to China during his time as a teacher prior to entering politics.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh000a3b6myc6rzdno@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Walz had previously said he visited Hong Kong in \u201cMay of \u201989,\u201d weeks before the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cecc.gov\/events\/hearings\/tiananmen-at-25-enduring-influence-on-us-china-relations-and-china%E2%80%99s-political\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014 hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China<\/a> honoring the 25th\u00a0anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, Walz, then a Minnesota congressman, appeared to recall specific details of his trip to China at that time.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh000b3b6mvgu7tcjs@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cAs a young man, I was just going to teach high school in Foshan in Guangdong, and was in Hong Kong in May of \u201989,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd as the events were unfolding, several of us went in. And I still remember the train station in Hong Kong.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh000d3b6mtgkmaepd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe opportunity to be in a Chinese high school at that critical time seemed to me to be really important. And it was a very interesting summer to say the least. Because if you recall, as we moved in that summer and further on and the news blackouts and things that went on, you certainly can\u2019t black out news from people if they want to get it,\u201d he continued.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh000f3b6m0oa01t7z@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Walz\u2019s 2014 claim that he visited China during the Tiananmen Square protests has been repeated in media reports. But contemporaneous newspaper reports\u00a0first\u00a0resurfaced by the Washington Free Beacon,\u00a0a conservative news outlet,\u00a0place Walz in Nebraska around that time.\u00a0An issue of the Alliance Times-Herald dated May 16, 1989, features a photo of Walz touring a Nebraska National Guard storeroom.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>In the photo\u2019s caption, the paper notes that Walz \u201cwill take over the job\u201d of staffing the storeroom from a retiring guardsman and \u201cwill be moving to Alliance,\u201d Nebraska. A separate\u00a0newspaper article about Walz\u2019s planned trip to China published by a Nebraska-based outlet in April 1989 reported that he planned to travel to China in early August of that year.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh000g3b6m9eqhtm75@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            When asked by CNN if Walz was in China during the Tiananmen Square protests, the Harris campaign was unable to provide evidence to substantiate Walz\u2019s claim.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh000h3b6mrulvst5n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The contradiction was first reported by Minnesota Public Radio News and APM Reports.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh000i3b6m83u48l8i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Walz also appears to have exaggerated the number of times he\u2019s travelled to China. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IXqY0Eb_QAI&amp;t=415s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 2016 interview<\/a>, he said he\u2019s visited China \u201cabout 30 times.\u201d In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cecc.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/cecc.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/Dissidents-Who-Have-Suffered-for-Human-Rights-in-China-A-Look-Back-and-A-Look-Forward.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another meeting<\/a> of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, in 2016, Walz claimed to have visited Hong Kong \u201cdozens and dozens and dozens of times.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh000l3b6mpy86sfku@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            When asked for clarification on how many times Walz traveled to China, a Harris campaign spokesperson told CNN the number of trips Walz took to China is \u201clikely closer to 15.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh000m3b6mzngsm85p@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            China has long held a significant place in Walz\u2019s life since he first traveled to the country in 1989. Walz and his wife, Gwen Walz, were married on June 4, 1994 \u2013 the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and spent their honeymoon leading students in an educational trip to China, something Walz did regularly during his time as a teacher before joining Congress. Ahead of their wedding, Gwen Walz told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/988532970\/?terms=remember&amp;match=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nebraska-based Star-Herald newspaper<\/a> that they planned to get married on the Tiananmen Square massacre\u00a0anniversary because \u201che wanted to have a date he\u2019ll always remember.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh000o3b6m3s0n0f1p@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Since joining the Harris campaign, Walz has not spoken at length about China or his history of travel to the country.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh000p3b6mts99fy3r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Republicans in recent days have circled Walz\u2019s ties to China as a target for further scrutiny. Jason Miller, a senior advisor to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/president-donald-trump-45\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s campaign, indicated Monday that he expects Vance to attack Walz for his history of trips to China.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh000q3b6m57mq6267@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cTiananmen Tim! Funny they\u2019re changing this now \u2013 we were planning on calling him out for this at the debate\u00a0tomorrow night! Anything else you want to fess up to, Tim???,\u201d Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JasonMillerinDC\/status\/1840774418361921812\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a social media post<\/a> in response to clarification offered by the Harris campaign about Walz\u2019s trips to China.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh000s3b6m6ehdwd7u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Congressional Republicans have joined the Trump campaign in calling into question Walz\u2019s ties to China. House Oversight Chairman James Comer subpoenaed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday for documents related to Walz as part of allegations\u00a0made by \u201cwhistleblower disclosures\u201d provided to the committee\u00a0that Walz has ties to the Chinese Communist Party. The subpoena is the latest step by House Republicans to spotlight Walz\u2019s ties to China through a probe that began in August shortly after he joined the Democratic ticket.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh000t3b6m5dn1mppm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The inconsistencies around Walz\u2019s travel to China mark the latest instance in which the governor\u2019s past comments have been revealed to be inaccurate since he became the Democratic\u00a0vice presidential nominee. In August, a Harris campaign spokesperson said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/10\/politics\/walz-national-guard-harris-campaign\/index.html\">Walz \u201cmisspoke\u201d in a 2018 video<\/a> in which he said he handled assault weapons \u201cin war.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1qj61uh000u3b6mir046aq5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Later that month, Gwen Walz clarified that the couple had used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/20\/politics\/gwen-walz-fertility-struggles\/index.html\">a fertility treatment other than in vitro fertilization<\/a> to conceive after her husband had suggested they had used IVF.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/01\/politics\/tim-walz-china-tiananmen-square\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Newly unearthed reports contradict previous claims made by Minnesota Gov. 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