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.

A Nebraska newspaper reported twice that Walz wasn’t planning on leaving for China until August 1989, more than two months after the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was put on the defensive ahead of the debate by stories, earlier reported by Minnesota Public Radio and APM Reports, that he had inaccurately claimed to be in Hong Kong for a t