Walz Says He Misspoke About His Travel During Tiananmen Protests

US Vice Presidential hopeful Tim Walz said he “misspoke” about being in Hong Kong when the deadly Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 erupted, without directly clarifying his whereabouts on June 4 of that year.

The Democratic candidate has claimed several times over the past decade that he was in the former British colony when China’s ruling Communist Party violently quashed the pro-democracy uprising. The New York Times and other outlets reported this week that media accounts from that time suggest he didn’t leave the US until August 1989.

Tim Walz during the first vice presidential debate on Oct. 1.

Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg

“I got there that summer and misspoke on this,” Walz said, ...