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China lashes out at JD Vance for calling Chinese people ‘peasants’

www.cnn.com /2025/04/08/china/china-slams-vance-peasants-remarks-intl-hnk/index.html

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.

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China lashes out at JD Vance for calling Chinese people ‘peasants’

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China Criticizes JD Vance for Calling Its People ‘Peasants’. A spokesman for China’s foreign ministry denounced the vice president’s comments as “ignorant and impolite.”

297 comments
  • "China lashes out"

    Did they also "slam" home the fact that this is quite literally a world leader directly insulting the people of their closest rival? The bad news writing mixing with clown world politics is why all this seems so unreal to people, we are talking about a collapse of global world order but this reads like a TMZ piece.

  • These people are so stupid, I cannot. I wish I was as blitzed as they are so I didn't have to pay attention either.

  • hillbilly not smart, chinese angry, me have to read this bs day in day out

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