Summary
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.
I’ve been looking for Chinese prison-crime-etc. data. Do you have a link?
It being in Mandarin isn’t a problem.
The United Nations Crime Trends Survey data seems to match pretty well with the data from World Prison Brief regarding prison population. Hopefully nobody will accuse the UN or a London-based organization of skewing the data in favour of China.
That’s the UN data for Hong Kong, but it was easy enough to find the page for the PRC, excluding Hong Kong and Macao. The figures still line up well enough (noting, as the other page does that it exclude statistics about people interred in the “vocational training schools”), although the UN doesn’t have figures post 2016.
UN page doesn’t seem to have execution rates either, which would also impact incarceration rates.
Not to say that the US isn’t atrocious and also terrible on all those metrics, and plumbing new lows with each successive presidency. I was just kinda hoping for some more official PRC reported figures.
The UN data appears on my browser for all countries including mainland China, doesn’t it appear to you?
Execution in the PRC necessitates approval from the Supreme Court, so it’s insignificant compared to total incarceration rate (unless we assume that the Supreme Court can oversee millions of cases per year). Unfortunately I don’t speak Chinese so I can’t really find official figures published in English.
Mainland PRC has no entries after 2016 for the UN site.
The London Prison studies one has an estimate for 2018, and says based off of UN data.
On 百度 I get mixed figures, from 3900 and another states At least 700 a year, but I also think it’s talking more globally.
Doesn’t seem to be public government statistics, like the UK or EU gov data sites, which would be nice to check things out and show to the rabid anti-China folks.