This attitude is wildly out of step with how AES states view the working class in the imperial core.

Xi Jinping:

Fourth, we must foster friendly sentiments among the peoples. People-to-people relations underpin state-to-state relations...

We will never forget the moral support and invaluable assistance the American people gave to our just resistance against aggression and our struggle for freedom and independence. The Chinese people have always held American entrepreneurship and creativity in high regards...

The foundation of the China-U.S. friendship has its roots in the people and its future rests with the youth. I want to announce here that China supports the initiative of sending a total of 50,000 Chinese and American students to study in each others’ countries over the next three years. China and the U.S. will launch a year of tourism in 2016. China on its part will create more favorable conditions for closer people-to-people exchanges.