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Walz's link to Tiananmen has Chinese social media buzzing
The New Indian Express
|August 08, 2024
US presidential candidate Kamala Harris's choice of Tim Walz as her running mate has raised eyebrows, and plenty of questions, in China, which he first visited in 1989, the year the military crushed pro-democracy protests.
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Demonstrators spent weeks on Beijing's Tiananmen Square demanding democracy before the military conducted a deadly crackdown on June 4, 1989.
Walz was married on the fifth anniversary of that politically sensitive date.
Discussion of the events at Tiananmen is strictly censored in China but many social media users made veiled references on Wednesday to the timing of Walz's stint in the country.
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