Beijing attacks JD Vance’s ‘Chinese peasants’ remark in tariffs interview

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.