China lashes out at JD Vance for comments about ‘Chinese peasants’ | CNN
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China on Tuesday slammed US Vice President JD Vance for his comments about “Chinese 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.

  • Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • Lit@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

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

    • turnip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Meanwhile they all can be gulag’d at any time by their cruel dictator. They are all serfs in that aspect.

      • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        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!

      • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        What’s the incarceration rate in China? You guys are so fucking racist by swallowing the Anti-Chinese propaganda I swear to god.

        • turnip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 months ago

          What’s the youth unemployment?

          The answer is it doesn’t matter, its a dictatorship that curates the truth.

          • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.comEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Have you not looked at western media during the GENOCIDE in Gaza? All of them collectively talking about “war in Israel and Palestine”, playing both sides, and curating the truth. For fuck’s sake, the average Republican in the USA lives in a completely different world of covid denialism, and thinks Elon performed an accidental Roman salute.

            • turnip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              1 month ago

              Does Bernie Sanders get arrested and put in a reeducation camp for speaking out against it, as he would in China?

              • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.comEnglish
                11·
                1 month ago

                You surely heard about this

                Or about this

                Those are just two examples from the past month. Edward Snowden? Julian Assange? Do those names ring a bell?

                Also, Bernie is openly not against the genocide in Gaza. He openly talks of “Israel’s right to defend itself” and consistently talks of the “war” (not the GENOCIDE) using bothsideism

                • turnip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                  1 month ago

                  We’ll touche, definitely weird to be talking about sending prisoners to El Salvador.

                  Though these terrorist laws were always going to be abused.