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.

  • Lit
    27•6 days ago

    Farmers should be respected like other workers, they are feeding the world.

    • @AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.comEnglish
      6•6 days ago

      Many jobs are equally essential, I don’t get why people lose their asses over farmers specifically. It’s not like they feed the people out of charity, it’s their job to do so, and they get paid to do it.

        • @AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.comEnglish
          14•6 days ago

          I respect farmers as long as they’re not abusing migrant labour at illegal wages… So, I barely respect farmers.

      • Lit
        3•6 days ago

        exactly and they should be equally respected like other workers.

        • @AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.comEnglish
          7•6 days ago

          Well, in as much as they’re workers, yeah. When instead they’re landowners who illegally employ immigrants in order to pay them misery wages under the counter, fuck them. Farmers can be extremely reactionary and exploitative too, in a way that say, a supermarket cashier, simply can’t be.

          • Lit
            3•6 days ago

            you are right but if you compare landowner you should compare to other owner like supermarket owner, store owner, there are also store owner who hire illegals worker/casher paying them miserable cash wages.

            • @AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.comEnglish
              3•6 days ago

              Exactly my point: many farmers aren’t working class, they’re petit-bourgeois, which explains why there are so many reactionary tendencies among them. The farmers who are working class deserve praise, the ones who are landowners don’t.