2024 Vice Presidential debate: Gov. Tim Walz vs. Sen. JD Vance: on Foreign Policy


Tim Walz: I am sometimes a knucklehead; I misspoke on Tiananmen

Q: You said you were in Hong Kong during the deadly Tiananmen Square protest in the spring of 1989. But Minnesota Public Radio and other media outlets are reporting that you actually didn't travel to Asia until August of that year. Can you explain that discrepancy?

WALZ: I got the opportunity in the summer of '89 to travel to China, and we would go back and forth to China. And I'm a knucklehead at times...I learned a lot about China. I hear the critiques of this. I would make the case that Donald Trump should have come on one of those trips with us. I guarantee you he wouldn't be praising Xi Jinping about COVID. And I guarantee you he wouldn't start a trade war that he ends up losing. So this is about trying to understand the world.

Q: The question was, can you explain the discrepancy?

WALZ: No. All I said on this was, is, I got there that summer and misspoke on this, so I will just, that's what I've said. So I was in Hong Kong and China during the democracy protest.

Source: 2024 Vice Presidential debate: Tim Walz vs. JD Vance Oct 1, 2024

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