Gov. Huntsman supports anti-China protests in San Diego

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Posted: 9:20 AM- Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman says he supports the protests in San Diego that are threatening the Olympic torch run.

Huntsman told the Deseret Morning News that he's outraged by China's treatment of Tibet and doesn't have a problem with other people expressing similar feelings. Some protesters have scaled the Golden Gate Bridge, hanging signs that read "Free Tibet."

Huntsman says he took part in protests himself in 1989 in opposition of China's treatment of demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. He says he protested outside of the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., despite running the Commerce Department's Asian affairs bureau at the time.