Top Chinese Official: U.S. ‘Peasants’ Will ‘Wail In Front Of The 5,000 Years Of Chinese Civilization’

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.” ...