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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

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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 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.”

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

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

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They are so laughably bad at this stong man act. They talk politics like either a particularly stupid playground bully or a guffawing British colonial moron from the time of the empire.
Also, I suppose it would help if your opponents found you even the least bit intimidating
- They're WWE grads
  
  they don’t even have good entrance music
  
  Linda MacMahon is literally the Secretary of Education.
  
  Yet they can't cut a promo!
- I feel like it's due to American privilege. They don't understand the real world and authentic humanity.
- Only Democrats seem to find their act intimidating.
  
  Here it is again, a desperate attempt to blame Democrats.

Poor man's idea of a rich man,
Stupid man's idea of a smart man,
Weak man's idea of a strong man,
Coward's idea of a brave man,
And a moronic voter's idea of a President (or Vice-president in this case).

Does he have to be an asshole to everybody? Even the way he speaks is like he talks down to people, it's just so cringe.
- Hate is the GOP platform.
  
  Hard to look at the policy when you are always whipped into a frenzy about those trans mexican chinese peasants
- I mean he was an asshole to his mum, wife and kids. (His mum is Appalachian American and in his book he said all Appalachian Americans are drug addicts. His wife is of Indian descent and so are his kids. He still defended the doge douche who was racist towards Indians.). So he pretty much has no assholeness filter and know no boundries.
  
  Yeah he is unfiltered white trash he has no creed, ethnicity, or kin. He technically has a race but only by the American standards, anywhere else and he's lacking even that.
- You haven't even said thank you, once!!!!!!
- Does he have to be an asshole to everybody?
  It's his only skill.
- yes, that is his only skill
- I honestly despise Vance so much, even more so than Trump. He's such a vile, spineless, cunt of a man that makes me want to punch him whenever he opens his mouth.
- A lifetime of being a loser can really do a lot to a person.

There goes the already remotely slim chance of any tariff negotiations. There is now a negative chance of China giving in.
- Yep. China is not gonna lose face by negotiating. They're gonna go all in to fuck the US over now.
- China wins this war in a landslide.
  USA needs China: walk into any American home, and it'll be minimum 50% China-related goods.
  The reverse situation, American goods in Chinese homes, would have a tough time approaching 10%.
  
  You know that isn't good for China either, right? It's the same twisted trade deficit logic that Trump is using. China's economy depends on selling those goods.
  
  Yay! Cheaper goods for everyone else. Thanks USA!
- In over 50 years, I have never seen a worst accounting of ourselves.
  Our leaders, elected officials, are absolutely corrupt, inept, and eaten up with greed . They are diseased in their souls.
  They need to be jailed , now.
  
  It's an excellent accounting by the person running the country. It's going better than planned.
  
  In over 50 years, I have never seen a worst accounting of ourselves
  You should have taken the hints with the Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, but better late than never I guess.
- 🇱🇷 💥 🇱🇷 💣 💥 👍 STUPID POWER YEAH 👍 🇱🇷 💥 🇱🇷 💣 💥
  COPE CHYNAH
  these stupid mother fuckers
  
  Hey man, not to be pedantic, but that's a Liberian flag, on brand for the targets of your sarcasm but 🤷🏾‍♂️
- I think this is the plan. They want to be able to blame China for the massively increased cost of consumer goods.

- These days they can update it with "don't waste your eggs, there are kids in America whose family can't even afford them"

Does anyone believe he does not see American citizens as peasants, too?
- Not just American citizens. The people he grew up with. His own community. He even wrote a book to exploit it. The guy is all sleaze.
- by recent voting history would that not be somewhat accurate?
  
  Explain what you think a peasant is .ml user.

Those “peasants” are going to weather a tariff war far better than the “peasants” in the United States who are not used to the hardship and scarcity that will result.
- far better than the “peasants” in the United States who are not used to the hardship and scarcity that will result
  I'm not sure of this, Chinese system has quirks, like subway stations in the middle of nowhere or, say, USSR-like shortages in some places as opposed to abundance in others. In case of all-out mercantilism boogaloo we might see people's well-being drop harder than expected in many places, and such a quirk might hit worse than "not being used to hardship and scarcity".
  After all, having enough to eat is not just matter of habit.
  
  Those subway stations in the middle of nowhere that were being touted a while back now are surrounded by bustling cities. Planned infrastructure takes time to fill, but it works much better than suburban sprawl
  
  We have been sanctioning Russia for decades to no avail, similar situation.
  
  Chima has sociaIism. Their people will be fine. The murican people will be left to fend for themselves/starve or become sIaves in the newly expanded guantanarno bay prison.
  
  subway stations in the middle of nowhere
  “Inefficiencies of central planning”. It’s wasteful and kind of amusing but at least they got something done and may even have a city coming next
  
  subway stations in the middle of nowhere
  This has been endlessly debunked... The "ghost cities" of China are majorly inhabited now, it's just a centrally planned way of building cities rather than laissez-faire house construction... which leads to available public transit, mixed use areas, parks and amenities, opposed to the suburban sprawl of the US.
  USSR-like shortages
  You really don't know what you're talking about, are you? The USSR rarely had "shortages", believe it or not. People having to go on waiting lists to acquire luxury products was a feature, not a bug, that guaranteed better distribution of scarce goods in a limited system. In capitalism, the consumption capabilities of people are limited by their income primarily. In the Soviet Union, because the basic necessities were extremely cheap (housing costing on average 3% of the monthly family income, transit ride prices being maintained from 1930 to the 70s without change, and inflation being on average 0% between the end of WW2 and the late 70s), people generally had money to spare.
  When you live in a self-sufficient economy where you can't extract more resources than you do or put more people in factories because employment rate is 100%, producing more of one thing implies producing less of another. The distribution of some luxury goods like cars, was handled through waiting lists, because the idea wasn't that a wealthy class would be able to appropriate all the goods and leave the rest without anything (as it happens in capitalism). It's not a shortage, it's just another more equitable form of distribution of goods than "poors can go fuck themselves".

One of the most frustrating things about the current US administration, is I keep having to side with China. wtf is going on when we can no longer even get together to hate on an external trading partner? When the enemies are not at the gate but in the keep? When I have to agree with actions to punish my own country as well earned and expected?
- Maybe the enemies aren't the ones we've been made to believe. Our homegrown capitalists export jobs to the "peasants" then they turn around and say to the jobless - look, the peasants took your job!
  
  The enemies have never been the Chinese proletariat who toil and slave for scraps to feed the demands of a capitalist, consumerist society and always the greedy, totalitarian faux-socialists with a love for concentration camps that form the ruling party.
  
  Maybe the real enemeies were the friends we made along the way? Wait... no probably not.
  
  I do feel like every 4 years… there’s a new enemy in the world. Kim > Putin > Bibi =/= Donald > who’s next?
- The enemy was never China. The current US administration is worse than the previous one, but it was never China imprisoning black people en-masse, keeping your healthcare unaffordable and your life expectancy below that of Cuba, keeping your tuition prices out of reach for the majority, not guaranteeing a retirement pension, and having the largest incarceration rate on Earth. It just took orange man for you to realize. Hopefully you won't turn back to anti-chinese sentiment and pro-US-imperialism when the cheeto is gone.
  
  Hopefully you won’t turn back to anti-chinese sentiment and pro-US-imperialism when the cheeto is gone.
  The guy literally said that the most frustrating thing is that he can't be anti-chinese anymore.
  
  Ehhhhhhh.......
  I don't disagree that the "western hemisphere" is a corrupt, increasingly fascist, capitalist hellhole..
  China aren't known for their stellar human rights record either. Uyghurs, Tibetans, anyone that jokes about Winnie the Pooh's lookalike, etc.
  Let's not pretend either side is righteous here, every single one of us is getting fucked, it's just a matter of degree and direction.
- Anyone else becoming consciously aware of things they just can't say because China is now going to be the next superpower?
  ...at least their list of banned statements are coherent and predictable....I guess. With the Trump admin, you could say "I like Gouda cheese" and a few years later find yourself in El Salvador because Trump, or some other moron, got upset that The Netherlands wouldn't willingly be annexed.
  
  That’s what I’m talking about the oppressive dictatorship with poor human rights is the voice of reason, if sanity, the “good one”? How did that happen?
- This was also not on my bingo card as well. It’s a damn weird timeline we’re living in.

JD Vance is such a little bitch.
- Hopefully china will sanction JD Vancer.

Rising tensions with China? I was told that's what the Democrats were going to do if they won. 🤷‍♂️
- They did.
  
  Pardon my ignorance, but how so?

Beyond him being an idiot and a racist and evil, who the fuck talks like this?
He called the UK and France "random countries" when dismissing their importance to mutual security agreements.
He talks like a 4chan dipshit. Which he probably was. Even if he is completely blocked from power for the next four years, just having this moron one heartbeat away from the Presidency has done truly horrific damage to the respect and prestige of the Office.
If by some miracle Trump steps back from the tariffs and the concentration camps and the blatant authoritarianism and the wholesale destruction of the federal government, the damage to America as an idea is something that none of us will live to see undone.
- Nobody ever thought highly of American culture, and I know racist fuckwads like these don't represent all Americans, but to outsiders they do. America's economy output was the only thing people liked about this country and the reason people immigrated here, you fuck with the money like this, then what's left of the country?
- What's wild is this current admin just kind of solidifies the image of American culture that people have been in denial of accepting. Everyone saw it but they just kept consuming and living in their own bubbles.
- America would have to have a good reputation prior to trump for your point to stand. Think about why your life was so easy before. How many people had their lives made harder so you could have your easy life? America itself is an overvalued stock.
  
  The amount of damage Trump is doing by destroying our international relationships demonstrates that America is central to the post-war order.

...I hate laughing at the downfall of my own country, but we definitely had it coming. I guess Chinese is the new lingua franca. Anyway, can someone help me understand why "Ma" in Mandarin means both weed and mom? How do I buy weed in Beijing?
- Mandarin has 4 (technically 5) tones so "ma" could be any one of those 4 different pronunciations. Furthermore, there are many completely different words that have the same tone/pronunciation. You just learn through context (same way as you do with English homophones)
  Mom in mandarin is 媽 (mā) whereas weed is 麻 (má). Colloquially you can also say 大麻 (dàmá) for weed.
  
  Also, even before you go into the nitty gritty, there are homonyms in English too, so I don't get why OP needs an explanation.
  
  you also use ma at the end of the sentences to form a question, to make it more confusing
  
  How legal is weed in China? I get the impression the regime is anti drugs
- U can ask Mom for weed by saying ma ma
  
  Make it a question with a third ma.
  So "ma ma ma?" (妈麻吗?)
- You can't. At least not legally.

Big talk from hillbilly white trash.
- I read this in Kahn from King of the Hills voice.
  
  "Hey, Minh! Mascra wearing Hillbilly is fondling his couch! You owe me a dollar! "

That's fresh, coming from a guy that thinks getting a couch pregnant is the only way to repopulate IKEA's inventory.
- https://gifdb.com/images/high/beat-a-dead-horse-spank-34oeg3biu566od95.gif
  
  Thanks JD
  
  Aw the little sheeply snowflake got affected. I assume that you complained in the same manner when your daddy talked about Hilary's email, Dark Brandon, Sleepy Joe, Kamala Socialist, "I Did This" stickers and so on? JD, looks like you haven't reached post-nut clarity after beating your Trump meat to a dead horse. Quite weird you did this if you ask me.

Don't take it personally, China. He feels the same way about the majority of Americans including his own family. He's got a chip on his shoulder bc he grew up among the peasant class, made it to the Ivy Leagues and has desperately been trying to claw his way into a social level he'll never be accepted to bc he wasn't born into it.
From his POV you're either a peasant, or you're an elitist. Unless you're part of the 1% of billionaires and generational wealth. Somehow that makes you an average Joe, and that's why you benefit the most from Vance's policies and "beliefs" (whatever he may need them to be in the moment).
Vance is not dumb, but he certainly acts like a useful idiot.
- He can get there despite being dumb. Plenty of really dumb people end up on top. Not because of their intelligence but because of their complete lack of regard for others.
- How is he not dumb? I've seen his texts in private chats. That's not meant for the public. And god damn does he seem dumb

I knew a girl from China and this is a huge insult to them. Being seen or labeled as rural is very embarrassing in their culture. She was ashamed because she grew up on her uncle's pig farm.
- Farmers should be respected like other workers, they are feeding the world.
  
  But then they vote republican...
  
  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.
  
  I agree. I was just providing a cultural perspective as to why this would be such a big deal for them.
- That's just because all the development happened in cities. It's easier to educate people when they live in a place with more funding.
  In 2020 or so the income inequality in china was equal to that of USA. Meaning that rural places didn't have sufficient funding.
  But now the gini is down to 0,36. Meaning that there's more widespread funding.
  China seems to be willing. While the inequality in USA is by design to attract capital
- I think the shame is on the part of all Americans as this is on them sadly even the good ones.
- Meanwhile they all can be gulag'd at any time by their cruel dictator. They are all serfs in that aspect.
  
  Man yeah, a country where you can be sent to an extra territorial jail with no due process and absolutely no recourse because the Man said so.
  That sounds scary!
  
  What's the incarceration rate in China? You guys are so fucking racist by swallowing the Anti-Chinese propaganda I swear to god.
  
  They are victims, not "peasants" or "serfs".

At some point, The Onion is going to have to close up shop. Because the absurdity of reality goes way beyond any satire they could dream up.
- Satire has been dead for many years...
  
  I remember that late night talk shows basically said that they don't have to write comedy during Trump's first term, because everything he was doing was comedy. This second term is far darker, but the lunacy of what's happening on a daily basis makes all comedy and satire writers obsolete!
  Even actual news reporting on serious things like "explaining Trump's tariffs", end up being almost unbelievable, like you have to question whether what you're listening to actually happened or not. Take a few minutes to learn about how Trump's team came up with the tariff numbers, and you'll think that you're watching a Pixar movie.

Wonder how my friend who's a Chinese immigrant who supports Trump and wanted to move to Singapore if Kamala won, feels about this.
- You should ask them if you haven't already. In a kind way of course.
  
  At some point I will.

Fuck that racist asshat clown.
There are plenty of things wrong with China and they couldn't find one. These guys make tween student councils look advanced.

"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.

We can hardly judge China on its human rights abuses anymore. We are becoming the "shithole" country.
- Becoming? Lol.
- Always was.
- Yeah US had atrocious human rights track records, they just didn't do it that much domestically.
  
  Do the 1100 extrajudicial murders per year and the world's largest prison population not count for anything?
- I can, all human rights abuses are bad.
  Tyrannical governments don't cancel each other out through the whataboutism property or whatever...
  
  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.

We owe Japan more than China, but the narrative we owe China sooo much comes from 20 years ago when they were our largest FOREIGN debtor. They were never clear about it and people thought we owed all the money to China. The US government's largest single debtor is the US government. It's too hard to wrap their mind around. The largest collective debtor is the public. Over 20 trillion of the debt is owed to the US public. This includes wealthy business entities, and individuals. China owns less than 5 percent of that, at under 1 trillion. Booga booga booga

Maybe it's high time the Chinese "peasants" and US "wage slaves" did a little something something.
- American libs still won't forgive Chinese peasants for taking arms 1 century ago and redistributing the land, what do you think the american working class will do now?
  
  Cry and starve to death

Coming from the hick from Appalachia.
- The stereotype at that. A dumb hick from Appalachia. Which isn't really fare to the people from there anymore. I've met serveral people from there who were fair minded and of reasonable intelligence. Just not that waste of breath.

Yeah, that's sounds like the kind of thing a wormy, little sleazy fuck like Vance would say .

“ignorant and disrespectful.”
Well, that’s the synonym of MAGA so 🤷🏻‍♂️

Vance is a piss baby peasant

They don't say thank you and they do not wear suits! Send them directly to Venezuela.

I’d say it’s ironic since vance literally became famous by celebrating American peasants, but for him it’s probably less about them being peasants and more about them being Chinese.

Vance -- that's the hillbilly guy, yeah?
- hillbilly
  his elergy, states how he was gay in childhood, but his grandma told him not to say such a thing.

wtf dumbass attacks asian face

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.

He needs several hundred lashes
- Happy cake day!

And shady vance was told to say this in the ongoing rich game of "Let's Tell Shady Vance What To Say!". Hillbilly Ugly should really try to get a mind of it's own.

We “borrow” from China in the same way your bank “borrows” from your savings account.

I mean isn't Trump's penguin tariff plan to make American peasants instead?

He's the future president of the United States. Be careful, China!

The backlash exploded on Chinese social media, garnering 140 million Weibo views.
Isn't this nothing for China?
- That's 10% of their population.
  
  Views, not people.

Isn't hillbilly the American word for peasant? Didn't JD write a book about that?
- Hillbilly refers to mountain folk from the Appalachians. Kinds like Highlanders in Scotland. Rough terrain, no real agriculture, just poverty.

Just Dumb is a fucking numbnut.

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
  
  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

It's a negotiating tactic /s

So China, how does wolfwarrior diplomacy taste?
- What?
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_warrior_diplomacy
  I was trying to say that this is what Trump and Vance are imitating.

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