{"id":70864,"date":"2025-04-08T21:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/08\/beijing-attacks-jd-vances-chinese-peasants-remark-in-tariffs-interview"},"modified":"2025-04-08T21:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:20:27","slug":"beijing-attacks-jd-vances-chinese-peasants-remark-in-tariffs-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70864","title":{"rendered":"Beijing attacks JD Vance\u2019s \u2018Chinese peasants\u2019 remark in tariffs interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese foreign ministry calls comments by US vice-president \u2018ignorant and disrespectful\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has hit back after the US vice-president, JD Vance, referred to \u201cChinese peasants\u201d in an interview defending Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6370975230112\">Fox News last week<\/a>, Vance asked: \u201cWhat has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is, fundamentally, it\u2019s based on two principles \u2013 incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make for us.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/08\/beijing-attacks-jd-vances-chinese-peasants-remark-in-tariffs-interview\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese foreign ministry calls comments by US vice-president \u2018ignorant and disrespectful\u2019Beijing has hit back after the US vice-president, JD Vance, referred to \u201cChinese peasants\u201d in an interview defending Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs.Speaking to Fox News la&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,415,437,558,3285,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-economics","category-global-economy","category-jd-vance","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70865,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70864\/revisions\/70865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}