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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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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Enjoy bootlicking the corporate overlords

They are not corporate, they are children of people who ran your beloved USSR. Putin's grandpa was a cook in Kremlin and fed Lenin, did you know that? Yeltsin is somehow treated as if him being first president of Russia were his main role in history, but he's been in CC CPSU for much longer. Ilham Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan, lectured in MGIMO in USSR's late years, while his father was the head of Azerbaijani SSR almost since Stalin.

Do you not understand your words just don't match anything real? They don't produce a response because there's nothing in the place they hit. That's what I'm trying to explain to you, Russia is not oppressed by some imaginary evil businessmen who hoarded everything in the 90s and then took power. Russia is oppressed by children and grandchildren of the same people who formed CPSU's core. They didn't get that through some business projects. They were the state and they are the state. They were the CPSU and ruled the big country, then they wanted better conditions for themselves and feared democratic movements, so they coerced those movements to help them survive. Then in Russia they created a few fake parties in the 90s, which changed names and appearances a few times, till ending up the current set of controlled CPRF, LDPR, the ruling party and some other I forgot, that was their popular effort direction, and the so called "administration of the president of Russia", which is a parallel government free from constitutional limitations and oversight even when oversight existed in Russia, as their hidden front. Well, that's all in the past, they won, no fronts anymore. They are killing people in this war just to distract their and Ukraine's population from themselves.

I'm not going to give you any sources, since what I'm saying is on the surface for someone who tries to learn something about Russia and the USSR. Western socialists do have quite a few myths contradicting that, but if you believe those, then you didn't try.

Not to say there are no problems with the "corporate overlord" types, but they lost. Khodorkovsky or Berezovsky or Ukrainian oligarchs are of that kind. They lost even in Ukraine. And that's really unfortunate, had they won there'd be no war.

[–] AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

they are children of people who ran your beloved USSR. Putin's grandpa was a cook

You're absolutely laughable, as I said I disengaged with you already.

Do you not understand your words just don't match anything real?

I'm the only one who provided source information instead of "vibes-based" analysis.

I'm not going to give you any sources

I noticed already, hence me disengaging.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You’re absolutely laughable

From a communist.

as I said I disengaged with you already

That's called a paradox.

I’m the only one who provided source information instead of “vibes-based” analysis.

You are not. There's information and there's confirmation. There's data and there are checksums.

I noticed already, hence me disengaging.

Since you haven't yet done that, this should probably have some deep meaning.