China lashes out at JD Vance for calling Chinese people ‘peasants’ | CNN
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China on Tuesday slammed US Vice President JD Vance for referring to the Chinese people as “peasants” in an interview that has drawn widespread ire and ridicule on China’s internet – and comparisons with Vance’s own self-proclaimed “hillbilly” background.

Summary

China condemned JD Vance on Tuesday for calling Chinese people “peasants” in a Fox News interview, where he said, “To make it a little more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.”

The Chinese Foreign Ministry labeled the remarks “ignorant and disrespectful.”

The backlash exploded on Chinese social media, garnering 140 million Weibo views.

Critics mocked Vance’s own “hillbilly” background and pointed to China’s advanced tech and infrastructure, highlighting rising tensions amid Trump’s trade war.

  • HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.eeEnglish
    48·
    11 days ago

    Beyond him being an idiot and a racist and evil, who the fuck talks like this?

    He called the UK and France “random countries” when dismissing their importance to mutual security agreements.

    He talks like a 4chan dipshit. Which he probably was. Even if he is completely blocked from power for the next four years, just having this moron one heartbeat away from the Presidency has done truly horrific damage to the respect and prestige of the Office.

    If by some miracle Trump steps back from the tariffs and the concentration camps and the blatant authoritarianism and the wholesale destruction of the federal government, the damage to America as an idea is something that none of us will live to see undone.

    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
      101·
      11 days ago

      Nobody ever thought highly of American culture, and I know racist fuckwads like these don’t represent all Americans, but to outsiders they do. America’s economy output was the only thing people liked about this country and the reason people immigrated here, you fuck with the money like this, then what’s left of the country?

    • peteyestee@feddit.orgEnglish
      9·
      11 days ago

      What’s wild is this current admin just kind of solidifies the image of American culture that people have been in denial of accepting. Everyone saw it but they just kept consuming and living in their own bubbles.

    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      11 days ago

      America would have to have a good reputation prior to trump for your point to stand. Think about why your life was so easy before. How many people had their lives made harder so you could have your easy life? America itself is an overvalued stock.

      • HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        The amount of damage Trump is doing by destroying our international relationships demonstrates that America is central to the post-war order.