The peasants are revolting!
He is not insulting the Chinese. Vance is insulting the globalist elite sellouts who created this system where manufacturing was shipped to China to exploit peasants to make cheap crap for Americans paid for by borrowing from the CHinese earnings on the cheap labor of the Chinese peasants all while profiting the globalist financial elite who sold us down the river.
China has skilled machinists, probably more than the US has.
We shouldn’t be importing:
1. stuff that can be made and packaged by automated equipment
[we should only be importing high comparative advantage products]
2. ferrous products for motor vehicles
[we export few cars - tariffs on automobile grade steel won’t hurt US automakers]
3. aluminum alloys for aircraft
[we need the absolute ability to build warplanes]
4. inputs to make plastic products
[this stuff is made at industrial scale]
5. life-saving drugs and their precursors
[so our sick people can’t be held hostage by anti-American governments]
The Chinese manufacturing industry has tremendous price pressures.
Automated equipment has been introduced at great scale.
The big Chinese money is used by affluent Chinese to buy stocks such as Apple and real property in Canada, the UK, and the USA and by the Chinese government and businesses to buy up Third World assets.
The money peasant girls make in factories is used to support their families.
He shouldn't have said that. He should have said, "...we borrow money from Chinese elites to buy the things their Chinese peasants manufacture,"
Hey China. JD Vance was once a peasant himself. You aren’t insulting him.
It’s peanuts.
What’s wrong with peasants? We’re all descended from them.