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.
What the fuck is wrong with the GOP that this is who we have as VP? We have had guys who owned slaves in that gig who knew not to refer to other nation’s people as “peasants”.
If it makes you feel any better, Dick Cheney is still the worst sack of shit to be VP.
Cheney had the decency to keep his head down, and mouth shut most of the time.
Decency isn’t a word I associate with him at all
How about decorum minus gun etiquette.
The same thing that is wrong to allow the orange menace to be president.
This is who they’ve always been. Trump just made it acceptable to say in public, again, after 100 years.