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According to a picture posted on X by BBC China correspondent Stephen McDonell, censors in China cut the broadcast of the vice presidential debate.
McDonell speculated that it was cut because Democratic nominee Tim Walz was asked about his claim that he was in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
The massacre, during which the Chinese Communist Party violently suppressed unarmed student protesters with tanks, is a heavily censored topic in China.
Walz was in Nebraska at the time of the massacre, but did visit Hong Kong that summer….
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