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Cnn
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On Tuesday, China criticized the American vice -president JD Vance for its comments on “Chinese peasants” in an interview that established a widespread ire and ridiculous on the Internet in China – and comparisons with the autoproclamed “Hillbilly” history of Vance.
Addressing Fox News last Thursday, Vance defended the prices of fighting the market for President Donald Trump and slowed down against “the globalist economy”.
“What has the globalist economy get the United States of America? And the answer is, fundamentally, it is based on two principles-resulting in a huge debt to buy things that other countries do for us,” said Vance in News Show “Fox & Friends”.
“To make a little clearer, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things that these Chinese peasants make.”
Asked about Vance’s comments during a regular drop in press on Tuesday, the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Lin Jian, said: “He is both surprising and lamentable to hear this vice-president to make such unhappy and disrespectful remarks.”
CNN contacted the Vance office to comment.
Vance interview clips went to the Chinese Internet this week, drawing an intense reaction in a country where factory floors are bordered by industrial robots, cities adopt local electric vehicles and remote counties are linked by a national high -speed rail network.
“This real” peasant “out of rural America seems to have a lack of perspective,” said Hu Xijin, the former editor -in -chief influential of the Global Times tablod managed by the State, in an article on the Weibo microblogging site. “Many people urge him to come and see China by himself.”
A hashtag on Vance’s remarks has become Weibo’s most trendy subject on Monday evening. On Tuesday afternoon, he accumulated 140 million views.
“Listen, it’s their true face – arrogant and rude as always,” said a comment with 2,900 likes.
“We can be peasants, but we have the best high -speed rail system in the world, the most powerful logistics capacities and AI, autonomous driving and autonomous drone technologies. Aren’t these peasants impressive enough? ” Another said.
Others have noted the irony of Vance’s comments given his own education in the working class, as illustrated in his 2016 Memoirs “Hillbilly Elegy”.
In the book, Vance recounts a childhood prey to poverty, abuse and drug addiction of his mother and partly spent in the Appalachians, a corner of the United States which, according to him, had been forgotten by rich elites. Vance’s book – a venture capital before its foray into politics – caused a feeling after the first victory of Trump’s elections and was largely considered an explanation of the billionaire among the white working class.