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.
Interesting if Vance is a chauvinist or just stupid enough to say aloud what most Americans really think about China…
I’m Chinese American. The majority of the people I meet in the US are not Sinophobes.
That being said, I do live in a deep blue city. I probably am not be going to a rural town
You have a very skewed view of what normal Americans think.
You should probably work on getting out of your media bubbles.
I was talking about the majority, not normal.