China hits back at JD Vance after he calls workers there ‘peasants’ amid tariff standoff

China has hit back against Vice President JD Vance after he referred to the nation’s population as “Chinese peasants.”

Vance appeared on Fox News last week, where he defended the Trump administration’s widespread new tariffs by asking what the “globalist economy” has done for the U.S. The vice president said the U.S. was “incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make.”