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

www.cnn.com China lashes out at JD Vance for calling Chinese people ‘peasants’ | CNN

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.

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They have to be Russian plants or smt right? Nothing they do make sense otherwise.
- I don't think it's Russia anymore, I think they are just Americans. Russian gov is probably laughing at the free clout they are getting from this ordeal.
  I don't think America is what people think it is. Now or 20 years ago.
  
  America has always had a skewed view of itself
  
  It's dark. From my own life experiences I think it's much darker than people could ever imagine. Once your see past the veil America becomes something horrific. I think there is a greater force in control and they own America outright at this point, and are working to overpower other nations the same way they did America. Not a group per se but and ideology that is toxic to human life. What some might call an evil force.
  We are living in a new age of war beyond governments, surrounded by people that misunderstand life and existence and want desperately a savior to bring them back to their old lifestyles of privileged materialism and existential escapism. They want others to fight their battle for honest genuine life and because of that they will lose. People need to find the role they play. Scholars, teachers, "good" criminals, fighters, warriors, lovers, and spiritual leaders ...honest human beings need to stop clinging to the old lifestyle and live like we are in a psychological war that pushes against true respectable genuine humanity.
  
  Russian gov is probably laughing at the free clout they are getting from this ordeal.
  If you'd seen people comprising "Russian gov" closely, you'd adore Vance, he's a warrior-philosopher with a subtle feel of poetry in comparison. EDIT: honest one at that.
- If Putin is supposedly a Xi servant, why would Trump, who supposedly serves Putin, engage in economic war with China?
  
  Cause autocrats never make sense - that's why at moved away from this model

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