China Responds To Vice President JD Vance’s “Chinese Peasants” Comment

The CCP has responded to Vice President JD Vance’s “Chinese peasants” comment.

Vance praised Trump’s tariffs on China in an interview with Fox News last week and shared that the Trump administration is working on deglobalizing the U.S. economy.

The Vice President stated that the current U.S. economy is ” fundamentally based on two principles: incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things other countries make for us, and to make it a little more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things that Chinese peasants manufacture.”

Watch Vance here:

Vance:
"We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture." pic.twitter.com/Mrkx8x7Z91

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China has condemned Vance’s remarks.

In response to Vance’s comment, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian shared, “To hear words that lack knowledge and respect like those uttered by this vice president is both surprising and kind of lamentable.”

beijing foreign ministry spox lin jian on jd vance’s “chinese peasants” comment

“it’s both astonishing and lamentable to hear this vice-president make such ignorant and disrespectful remarks.”
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Check out what The Washington Examiner reported:

The Chinese Communist Party is upset with Vice President JD Vance after he asserted that his country is borrowing money from “Chinese peasants.”

Beijing’s complaints stem from an interview the vice president gave to Fox News last week in which he defended President Donald Trump’s tariff policy as a method of deglobalizing the U.S. economy.

“I think it’s useful for all of us to step back and ask ourselves: What has the globalized economy gotten the United States of America?”

Vance said in the interview. “Fundamentally, it’s based on two principles, incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things other countries make for us, and to make it a little more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things that Chinese peasants manufacture.”

“That is not a recipe for economic prosperity, it’s not a recipe for low prices, and it’s not a recipe for good jobs in the United States of America,” he added.

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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian held a press conference Tuesday, during which state-owned media outlet Shenzen TV asked him for comment on the “peasants” remark.

“China has made its position perfectly clear on its trade relations with the U.S.,” the spokesman said. “To hear words that lack knowledge and respect like those uttered by this vice president is both surprising and kind of lamentable.”

Questions about the emerging trade war between the U.S. and China dominated the press conference. Lin said his country “deplores and rejects” the U.S.’s “unilateralism, protectionism, and economic bullying.”

JD Vance said “We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture”.

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs called JD Vance Ignorant and impolite.

I think he was being nice.

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— James Tate (@JamesTate121) April 8, 2025

Per MSNBC:

As tensions between the U.S. and China escalate over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Vice President JD Vance sparked more acrimony with China by referring to its people as “peasants” in a Fox News interview last week.

While defending the administration’s tariffs on the network Thursday, Vance said “the globalist economy” was working against the U.S.

“Fundamentally, it’s based on two principles: incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make for us,” he said in the interview. “To make it a little more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.”

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The VP’s comments have been widely circulated — and ridiculed — on Chinese social platforms, including by some who drew comparisons to Vance’s self-described “hillbilly” upbringing, CNN reported.