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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.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Big talk from hillbilly white trash.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I read this in Kahn from King of the Hills voice.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

"Hey, Minh! Mascra wearing Hillbilly is fondling his couch! You owe me a dollar! "

[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 days ago (1 children)

JD Vance is such a little bitch.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

"China lashes out"

Did they also "slam" home the fact that this is quite literally a world leader directly insulting the people of their closest rival? The bad news writing mixing with clown world politics is why all this seems so unreal to people, we are talking about a collapse of global world order but this reads like a TMZ piece.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wonder how my friend who's a Chinese immigrant who supports Trump and wanted to move to Singapore if Kamala won, feels about this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You should ask them if you haven't already. In a kind way of course.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

At some point I will.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

...I hate laughing at the downfall of my own country, but we definitely had it coming. I guess Chinese is the new lingua franca. Anyway, can someone help me understand why "Ma" in Mandarin means both weed and mom? How do I buy weed in Beijing?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Mandarin has 4 (technically 5) tones so "ma" could be any one of those 4 different pronunciations. Furthermore, there are many completely different words that have the same tone/pronunciation. You just learn through context (same way as you do with English homophones)

Mom in mandarin is 媽 (mā) whereas weed is 麻 (má). Colloquially you can also say 大麻 (dàmá) for weed.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

U can ask Mom for weed by saying ma ma

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago (2 children)

At some point, The Onion is going to have to close up shop. Because the absurdity of reality goes way beyond any satire they could dream up.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (17 children)

I knew a girl from China and this is a huge insult to them. Being seen or labeled as rural is very embarrassing in their culture. She was ashamed because she grew up on her uncle's pig farm.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Farmers should be respected like other workers, they are feeding the world.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But then they vote republican...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Many jobs are equally essential, I don't get why people lose their asses over farmers specifically. It's not like they feed the people out of charity, it's their job to do so, and they get paid to do it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I respect farmers as long as they aren't ignorant and conservative.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

I respect farmers as long as they're not abusing migrant labour at illegal wages... So, I barely respect farmers.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Coming from the hick from Appalachia.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

wtf dumbass attacks asian face

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I mean isn't Trump's penguin tariff plan to make American peasants instead?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

These people are so stupid, I cannot. I wish I was as blitzed as they are so I didn't have to pay attention either.

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