据多家媒体报道，身为民主党副总统候选人的明尼苏达州州长蒂姆·沃尔兹（Tim Walz）在1989年天安门广场事件期间声称自己在香港，并以此误导公众，这与一系列此前已知的不准确信息构成了一个更为广泛的信息模式。共和党方面寄望能利用这些错误陈述。
2019年的一次CNN电台访谈记录显示，沃尔兹曾表明他在屠杀发生的那一天即6月4日身处香港，但事实上根据公开可用证据，他当时并不在那里。《美联社》已联系了哈里斯-沃尔兹总统竞选团队就该误会予以澄清，并未得到回复。
据记载，在1989年北京长达7周的学生民主示威活动之后，中国军队在6月4日对示威群众实施暴力行动并造成了至少500人的伤亡。
明尼苏达公共广播电台周一报道指出，有公开记录与2014年沃尔兹作为美国众议员出席的一场纪念事件的听证会上的一份陈述相矛盾。当时他声称自己在当年五月身处香港及英国前殖民地，但其实他是在内布拉斯加州。官方记录显示他在8月那一年前往了中国和香港。
此外，沃尔兹还对家庭接受的不孕不育治疗类型有误导性描述，并有关于1995年酒驾被捕以及国民警卫队军衔的信息存在矛盾之处。沃尔兹及其竞选团队对1995年的酒驾逮捕事件的说法也有出入。
在2014年的天安门广场听证会上，沃尔兹称：“作为一名年轻人，我那时打算在中国广东省佛山的一所高中教书，并且在五月那一年身处香港。当时示威事件正在发生，我们几个人都去了那里。我还记得香港的火车站，有大量的人群，尤其是欧洲人，非常愤怒我们还继续关注已经发生的那些事。”
“但当时我的看法是，外交将会在多个层面上进行，当然包括人与人的交流，在那个关键时期，在中国高中工作对我来说显得特别重要。”他接着说。
明尼苏达公共广播电台的研究表明，据证据显示，1989年5月当时的沃尔兹老师实际仍身处内布拉斯加州。那一年他通过位于哈佛大学的非营利组织WorldTeach来到中国学习。
据报道，在该月的报纸照片中有一张日期为1989年5月16日的照片，内容显示沃尔兹正在内布拉斯加州国家预备军事基地工作。另外，同一年内的一则来自内布拉斯加州的新闻报道指明，沃尔兹计划于当年8月前往中国，并透露他在夏季发生学生抗议活动后几乎放弃了参与该项目。
有部分共和党人士批评沃尔兹长期对中国持有浓厚兴趣。除了在那地学习之外，他还曾回香港度蜜月及与美国交换生多次访华。
来自圣母大学全球事务学院的助理教授凯尔·杰罗斯（Kyle Jaros）向《美联社》表示，“攻击对手单纯因为他们简历中有关于中国的元素”，已成为一种常用的策略。
新闻来源：www.abcnews.go.com
原文地址：Walz misleadingly claims to have been in Hong Kong during period tied to Tiananmen Square massacre
新闻日期：2024-10-01
原文摘要：
Multiple news reports indicate that Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz misleadingly claimed he was in Hong Kong during the turbulence surrounding the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, part of a broader pattern of inaccuracies that Republicans hope to exploit. On Tuesday, CNN posted a 2019 radio interview in which Walz stated he was in Hong Kong on the day of the massacre, when publicly available evidence suggests he was not. The Associated Press contacted the Harris-Walz presidential campaign regarding the misrepresentations and did not receive a response. After a seven-week demonstration in Beijing led by pro-democracy students, China’s military fired heavily on the group on June 4, 1989, and left at least 500 people dead. Minnesota Public Radio reported Monday that publicly available accounts contradict a 2014 statement made by Walz, then a member of the U.S. House, during a hearing that commemorated the 25th anniversary of the massacre. Walz suggested that he was in the then-British colony of Hong Kong in May 1989, but he appears to have been in Nebraska. Public records suggest he left for Hong Kong and China in August of that year. The vice presidential candidate also has made statements in which he misrepresented the type of infertility treatment received by his family, and there have been conflicting accounts of his 1995 arrest for drunk driving and misleading information about his rank in the National Guard. Mr. Walz and his campaign have also given different versions of the story of his 1995 arrest for drunken driving. During the 2014 hearing on Tiananmen Square, Walz testified: “As a young man I was just going to teach high school in Foshan in Guangdong province and was in Hong Kong in May 1989. As the events were unfolding, several of us went in. I still remember the train station in Hong Kong. There was a large number of people — especially Europeans, I think — very angry that we would still go after what had happened.” “But it was my belief at that time,” Walz continued, “that the diplomacy was going to happen on many levels, certainly people to people, and the opportunity to be in a Chinese high school at that critical time seemed to me to be really important.” Minnesota Public Radio said the evidence shows that Walz, then a 25-year-old teacher, was still in Nebraska in May 1989. He went to China that year through WorldTeach, a small nonprofit based at Harvard University. The news organization found a newspaper photograph published on May 16, 1989, of Walz working at a National Guard Armory. A separate story from a Nebraska newspaper on August 11 of that year said Walz would “leave Sunday en route to China” and that he had nearly “given up” participating in the program after student revolts that summer in China. Some Republicans have criticized Walz for his longstanding interest in China. Besides teaching there, he went back for his honeymoon and several times after with American exchange students. Kyle Jaros, an associate professor of global affairs at the University of Notre Dame, told The Associated Press that it's become “a well-worn tactic to attack opponents simply for having a China line in their resumes.”
