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.

  • TTom0602@lemmy.world
    307·
    9 days ago

    We can hardly judge China on its human rights abuses anymore. We are becoming the “shithole” country.

    • nialv7@lemmy.world
      15·
      9 days ago

      Yeah US had atrocious human rights track records, they just didn’t do it that much domestically.

      • NuclearDolphin@lemmy.mlEnglish
        12·
        9 days ago

        Do the 1100 extrajudicial murders per year and the world’s largest prison population not count for anything?

    • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
      53·
      9 days ago

      I can, all human rights abuses are bad.

      Tyrannical governments don’t cancel each other out through the whataboutism property or whatever…

      • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        They don’t of course, but the leading argument to not use china’s system was always because of human rights, when there is no human rights or economic advantage, etc, it becomes pointless to resist marxist leninism, except to advocate anarchism.