Beijing attacks JD Vance’s ‘Chinese peasants’ remark in tariffs interview
by Paul Owen from Economics | The Guardian on (#6WFT7)
Chinese foreign ministry calls comments by US vice-president ignorant and disrespectful'
Beijing has hit back after the US vice-president, JD Vance, referred to Chinese peasants" in an interview defending Donald Trump's tariffs.
Speaking to Fox News last week, Vance asked: What has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is, fundamentally, it's based on two principles - incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make for us.
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