evidence: Pressed about claims that he was in China during the Tiananmen Square massacre, despite contemporaneous news reports that placed him in Nebraska at the time, Walz downplayed his past comments. [...] Walz had said he was in Hong Kong in May and June, including on the day the massacre occurred in Beijing. "I was in Hong Kong on June 4, 1989, when, of course, Tiananmen Square happened. And I was in China after that. It was very strange, ’cause, of course, all outside transmissions were, were blocked — Voice of America — and, of course, there was no, no phones or email or anything. So I was kind of out of touch. It took me a month to know the Berlin Wall had fallen when I was living there," he said in a June 2019 radio interview, according to CNN.