JD Vance slammed for calling Chinese people 'peasants'

China on Tuesday slammed US Vice President JD Vance for referring to the Chinese people as "peasants" in an interview that has drawn widespread ire and ridicule on China's internet - and comparisons with Vance's own self-proclaimed "hillbilly" background. Speaking to Fox News last Thursday, Vance defended President Donald Trump's market-hammering tariffs and railed against the "globalist economy." "What has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is, fundamentally, it's based on two principles - incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make for us," Vance told news show "Fox…