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.
“ignorant and disrespectful.”
Well, that’s the synonym of MAGA so 🤷🏻♂️
wtf dumbass attacks asian face
Vance is a piss baby peasant
There goes the already remotely slim chance of any tariff negotiations. There is now a negative chance of China giving in.
🇱🇷 💥 🇱🇷 💣 💥 👍 STUPID POWER YEAH 👍 🇱🇷 💥 🇱🇷 💣 💥
COPE CHYNAH
these stupid mother fuckers
CHI-nuh.
I wish I never had to hear his voice again. And no, I don’t want him dead, just put in a retirement home.
Hey man, not to be pedantic, but that’s a Liberian flag, on brand for the targets of your sarcasm but 🤷🏾♂️
100% intentional.
Ah, splendid then.
LIBERiA IS A NEW WAY TO SAY LIBERTY 🇱🇷 🇱🇷 🇱🇷 👊🔥
I think this is the plan. They want to be able to blame China for the massively increased cost of consumer goods.
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.
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.
The US is just one country out of ~190 with a population of 300m out of 7b. Losing some exports to the US will sting a bit, but in the grand scheme it’s nothing.
The US needs to get its head out of its ass and realize its not as important as it thinks.
300m not 300k
Corrected, that’s what I meant
China has the entire rest of the world to sell to.
While trade war isn’t good for anyone US is clear looser here since China’s export to US (as of 2023 stats) is only 15% from its overall export. They can sell more other countries to smoothen impact. Meanwhile who gonna buy US stuff? “Best friend“ Russia with total GPD of less than California?
“only 15%”? That’s a huge percentage when you look at global trade. In 2023, their next biggest export partner is Hong Kong at 8%, which is now part of China. After that it’s Japan at 5%, followed by South Korea at 4.5%.
https://tradingeconomics.com/china/exports-by-country
The point is, China doesn’t want this trade war at all, and neither do we. Trump and Co. are complete morons that are fucking up the global economy for nonsensical reasons. Yes, other countries can eventually establish new trade deals without the US, and they likely will, but let’s not pretend they all can just bounce back within a few months if these idiotic shenanigans continue.
That use of “only” before “15%” is a serious underestimation in absolute terms, but wholly appropriate when those 15% are relative to the US’s self-inflicted trade damage: it’s still immensely better when 15% of your trade goes to a trading partner which has picked a fight with you than when 100% of your trade goes to trade partners you have picked fights with.
Further, in the last 2 decades or so China has both been growing its internal market (so that its Economy is less dependent on exports) and diversifying the countries they export to, likely in preparation for the death throes of empire as the US falls from its top position, which were entirely expected for decades, as was that they would include some form of trade pressure on its closest adversary.
Absolutely, this is going to hurt China in the short-term (and possibly mid-term, depending on how easy or not is to redirect those exports to other destinations), but the Trump trade war with the World is going to totally fuck up the US and it’s the kind of harm that gets worse the longer these measures remain in place because it will be further eating away at the US brand (so even after the tariffs are removed many customers won’t be coming back) and accelerate the demise of the Reserve Currency status of the USD (which will in turn be reflected in massive inflation as those dollars flood back in and way bigger deficit related problems because the costs of debt servicing will go up when there is little demand for US Dollars abroad).
I wanted EU but the closest breakdown was Europe at 22%. Russia is 3.4% and assuming that’s included in Europe puts it closer to 18.6%.
Yeah, except America isn’t the only country in the world
Certainly, but we’re the biggest consumer economy by a long shot. Trying to replace roughly $600 billion in exports isn’t an easy ask, especially since the next biggest economic bloc after the US and China, the EU, has been trying to move away from over reliance on China for years.
They may be trying to move away from China, but they’re going to be moving back fast with these tariffs in place. Everyone loses in a trade war, but China is very much going to be the winner. No matter what happens after today, the US has lost it’s bargaining position and value as a trading partner and ally.
Putin has won his war against the US, it’s just a matter of how we fall at this point.
I don’t disagree, I’m just pointing out that no one wants this and China isn’t going to just magically replace their biggest trading partner overnight, which is why they were legitimately trying to work out a new deal originally.
Trust me, I fully agree the US will be the biggest loser from all of this.
Not to mention many of those Chinese products are designed by and built for American companies or nonamerican companies that sell in the US, which complicates things even further. This is much more complicated and much messier than simply looking at how many US goods there are in a typical Chinese household. Everybody loses thanks to Trump’s idiocy.
Yay! Cheaper goods for everyone else. Thanks USA!
Yep. China is not gonna lose face by negotiating. They’re gonna go all in to fuck the US over now.
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.
Yeah, that’s sounds like the kind of thing a wormy, little sleazy fuck like Vance would say .
He still doesn’t understand that no matter how smart he is, or how much ass he kisses, he’ll never be one of Them.
Lee Atwater made the same mistake.
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).
Vance – that’s the hillbilly guy, yeah?
That’s fresh, coming from a guy that thinks getting a couch pregnant is the only way to repopulate IKEA’s inventory.
Thanks JD
Rising tensions with China? I was told that’s what the Democrats were going to do if they won. 🤷♂️
Maga said that Biden was under CCP control.
Now looks who is under Kremlin control.
Projection.
Wait, I thought Trump is Putin’s puppet and Putin is Xi’s puppet?
They did.
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
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.
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
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.
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”.
What the fuck is wrong with the GOP that this is who we have as VP?
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.
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.
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! "
