JD Vances Chinese peasant remarks ignorant, officials say amid tariff war – National [Video]

Officials in China are responding to U.S. Vice-President JD Vance after he referred to the country’s people as “peasants” while defending Trump’s tariffs during an interview with Fox News last week.

Vance queried the benefits of the U.S. operating in a global economy, saying it led to debt and the costly purchasing of goods produced abroad.

“To make it a little more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture,” he said.

“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,” Vance added.

He also doubled down on the Trump administration’s campaign promise to repurpose the American economy, citing a decline in U.S manufacturing, the cost of homes, and inflation as justification for the striking shifts in its fiscal policy.

Responding to the vice-president’s remarks on …