During the debate, the moderator questioned Tim Walz about reports that suggested he had falsely claimed to be in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Recent reports indicate that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz may not have been in China in the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989, as he said.

Newly unnearthed newspaper articles from 1989 called into question Walz's claims that he was in Hong Kong on June 4 of that year.

Mr. Walz taught at a high school in China as part of a program sending American teachers abroad, but he did not actually travel to the country until August 1989.

Tim Walz has been accused of lying about being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. The Minnesota governor and vice-presidential candidate has repeatedly claimed that he was teaching in the territory when the Chinese government crushed pro-democracy demonstrations,