Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) has touted traveling to China 30 times and being in Hong Kong when the Chinese Communist Party cracked down on student protests in 1989. But public records and a new statement from the Democratic vice presidential nominee’s campaign tell another story.

As a then-congressman in 2014, Walz described what he said was his proximity to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, a story that has since been picked up by national media outlets. The 2024 running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris, moreover, previously said that he has taken 30 trips to China — a country Walz insisted in 2016 does not need “to [have] an adversarial relationship” with the United States.