Mao Offered (10 million) Women to U.S.

[Kadie]

Mao Offered Women to U.S.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

(02-14) 15:34 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --


Amid a discussion of trade in 1973, Chairman Mao Zedong made what Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger called a novel proposition: sending tens of thousands, even 10 million, Chinese women to the United States.

"You know, China is a very poor country," Mao said, according to a document released by the State Department's historian office. "We don't have much. What we have in excess is women. So if you want them we can give a few of those to you, some tens of thousands."

A few minutes later, Mao circled back to the offer. "Do you want our Chinese women?" he asked. "We can give you 10 million."

After Kissinger noted Mao was "improving his offer," the chairman said, "We have too many women ... They give birth to children and our children are too many."

"It is such a novel proposition," Kissinger replied in his discussion with Mao in Beijing. "We will have to study it."


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/02/14/national/w153440S04.DTL&tsp=1

[bbinacan]

1. Kissinger never

studied it. That was diplomat speak for "Your nuts but I won't say that to your face".

[ChazII]

3. Good answer. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. I wonder what Bill Clinton would have done

Just a joke, a small joke.

[bbinacan]

4. That is friggin' hilarious

He probably would have said "Is 10 million the best you can do?"

Sorry, I can't help myself.

:evilgrin: :rofl:

[alfredo]

5. I wonder what would have happened if he accepted?

[bbinacan]

6. Kissinger or Clinton? n/t

[alfredo]

8. Henry K.

[bbinacan]

11. I don't believe he

would ever have accepted. Unless of course, it was a bluff to further his bargaining position.

[alfredo]

23. I don't think he would either. At the best it would be a logistical

nightmare, and at its worst it is human trafficking.

[Iktomiwicasa]

13. Bill would have said

"How do they feel about cigars?"

runs to put on flameproof suit :yoiks:

[bbinacan]

16. No need for a flame suit

humor is humor. And what you said has me laughing my ass off. Good one.:evilgrin: :smoke: :rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

7. wow - and then they go implement the 1 child policy

and they cut back on the number of women...

[alfredo]

9. More men makes war more likely.

[SoCalDem]

12. and guess what? Now they have millions of angry horny young guys with no women

to marry them..

Millions of female babies were killed because of the one-child policy, since they "preferred" to have a male child..

the low number of surviving females are unwilling to stay in poor communities and hook up with a poor farmboy.. They are in the driver's seat, and look for the richest, most educated young men they can find, leaving the others with no chance of marrying & creating their own families..

The cure?...WAR

[demigoddess]

14. karma is a B****ch

patriarchy has its downside and this is one of them. They will have to rearrange their thinking in the future. All will balance out in the end/

[Elidor]

10. So bizarre it has to be true

No one could make this stuff up. 10 million Chinese women. My fucking god. And he may even have meant it.

[Canuckistanian]

15. Mao was a nutcase in his later years

The Gang of Four. The "Great Leap Forward". The Cultural Revolution. Lin Biao.

Not exactly milestones in socialist thinking.

However, Mao WAS a great emancipator of women with his revolution.

He often wrote about the plight of peasant women and how they were treated as nothing but slaves or concubines to their men.

It was a revolutionary idea in Asia at the time.

[NewJeffCT]

19. 50% of the sky, if I recall

one thing you'll find in China - at least in the more urbanized East - is that men do a lot of housework there when compared to many other places.

[Kingofalldems]

17. "Your women--we want your women!"

---John Belushi

[LeftyMom]

18. Now they sell their daughters to Americans instead.

:shrug:

[Donk Yore]

20. Kissinger's an idiot pre neocon

me want chinese woman.

[Jack Rabbit]

21. Mao probably was a very friend of many of them

He had more trouble with his zipper than Solomon.

[LibertyLover]

22. Well, with all the US adoptions of abandoned girls from China

over the past several years, my own precious little girl (disclaimer: said 5 year old daughter is currently asleep, so is automatically "precious") included, China has given the US some of its women.

[daleo]

24. I would be interested to see this document

I have my doubts about the story. It sounds like anti-Chinese dehumanizing propaganda.

"according to a document released by the State Department's historian office."

[VotesForWomen]

25. and misogyny is a myth.... nt

[Matariki]

26. "Women hold up half the sky" - but we'll still trade them away like cattle n/t