Mao Wanted to Send 10 Million Chinese Women to the US!

According to documents recently released by the State Department, Chairman Mao tried to solve China’s population problem in 1973 by offering Chinese women to US envoy Henry Kissinger:

"You know, China is a very poor country," Mao is quoted as saying during the exchange. "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."

The Chinese leader drew laughter when he returned to the proposition a few minutes later. "Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you 10 million." he said, adding: "We have too many women … They give birth to children and our children are too many."

Kissinger, ever the diplomat, demurred: "It is such a novel proposition, we will have to study it."

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March 1, 2008 at 3:29 am by Alex
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10 comments to "Mao Wanted to Send 10 Million Chinese Women to the US!"

Eugenio Martínez
March 1st, 2008 at 4:46 am
Heavens. He didn´t accept. I am very sorry for you.

I wish I had thousand of oriental women in my city
Jane
March 1st, 2008 at 6:43 am
Well, the irony is that they don’t have enough women now and they have to kidnap women from neighboring coutries
Ali S.
March 1st, 2008 at 8:59 am
@ Jane

Kidnap? That I’ve never heard of, however, I do hear that the mail order bride business is booming. I’ve read that with the one child system and the preference for boys over girls has been the primary reason for the messed up male to female ratio.
emptyminded
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:52 am
No wonder Nixon went to China.
L
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I doubt China has to kidnap women. Unless their female infanticide trend has worked TOO well…
L
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Never mind. Just looked it up. They are kidnapping women. But it’s because of their “missing” women. So I was half right.
Wayne
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
I would not read too much into these comments. The transcript is here. http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/100320.pdf
It was clearly a joke - he was teasing the women interpreters.
Jane
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Well they do. L, you’re actually correct. Because their female infanticide has worked too well, most men in the countryside can not manage to get a wife so they have to purchase a wife from the human smuggler. These smugglers get their girls by going to the poor villages in neighbouring countries and tricking the girls there to go with them for high paying job in the city.
peach
March 6th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Too bad he didn’t accept the proposal. We could all have had our very own chinese woman.
somethingsomething
May 18th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Fuxking China.. did they just get retarted the last couple centuries? Get your priorities straight you chinese idiots.

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Mao Wanted to Send 10 Million Chinese Women to the US!

According to documents recently released by the State Department, Chairman Mao tried to solve China’s population problem in 1973 by offering Chinese women to US envoy Henry Kissinger:

"You know, China is a very poor country," Mao is quoted as saying during the exchange. "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."

The Chinese leader drew laughter when he returned to the proposition a few minutes later. "Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you 10 million." he said, adding: "We have too many women … They give birth to children and our children are too many."

Kissinger, ever the diplomat, demurred: "It is such a novel proposition, we will have to study it."

Link - via FP Passport