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.

  • turnip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Does Bernie Sanders get arrested and put in a reeducation camp for speaking out against it, as he would in China?

    • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      14 hours ago

      You surely heard about this

      Or about this

      Those are just two examples from the past month. Edward Snowden? Julian Assange? Do those names ring a bell?

      Also, Bernie is openly not against the genocide in Gaza. He openly talks of “Israel’s right to defend itself” and consistently talks of the “war” (not the GENOCIDE) using bothsideism

      • turnip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        We’ll touche, definitely weird to be talking about sending prisoners to El Salvador.

        Though these terrorist laws were always going to be abused.