A senior Chinese official, responding to the tariff war that President Trump launched against the Communist Chinese, mocked Americans as “peasants” who would “wail in front of the 5,000 years of Chinese civilization.”
Xia Baolong, who oversees Hong Kong and Macao, said on Tuesday that Trump’s 145% tariff on goods from China was “brutally unreasonable.”
“The U.S. isn’t after our tariffs but our very survival,” Xia said on television.
“The U.S. has repeatedly contained and suppressed Hong Kong … and this will eventually backfire on itself. Let those peasants in the United States wail in front of the 5,000 years of Chinese civilization.”
“The Chinese people do not cause trouble, nor are they afraid of trouble. Pressure, threats, and blackmail are not the right way to deal with China,” he continued.
Baolong’s verbiage picked up on rhetoric used by Vice President JD Vance, who told Fox News earlier this month, “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. To make it a little more crystal clear, we borrow money from