Zey would haff to meet zertain physical characteristics, ja?
Posted on 05/14/2008 5:28:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WASHINGTON - Chinese leader Mao Zedong proposed sending 10 million Chinese women to the United States, in talks with top envoy Henry Kissinger in 1973, according to documents released Tuesday.
The powerful chairman of the Chinese Communist Party said he believed such emigration could kickstart bilateral trade but could also "harm" the United States with a population explosion similar to China, according to documents released Tuesday by the State Department on US-China ties between 1973 to 1976.
In a long conversation that stretched way past midnight at Mao's residence on February 17, 1973, the cigar-chomping Chinese leader referred to the dismal trade between the two countries, saying China was a "very poor country" and "what we have in excess is women."
He first suggested sending "thousands" of women but as an afterthought proposed "10 million," drawing laughter at the meeting, also attended by Chinese premier Zhou Enlai.
Kissinger, who was President Richard Nixon's national security advisor at that time, told Mao that the United States had no "quotas" or "tariffs" for Chinese women, drawing more laughter.
Kissinger then tried to highlight to Mao the threat posed by the Soviet Union and other global concerns as he moved to lay the groundwork for restoring diplomatic ties a year after Nixon's historic visit to China.
But Mao dragged the talks back to the topic of Chinese women.
"Let them go to your place. They will create disasters. That way you can lessen our burdens," Mao said.
"Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million," he said.
Kissinger noted that Mao was "improving his offer."
Mao continued, "By doing so we can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. In our country we have too many women, and they have a way of doing things.
"They give birth to children and our children are too many."
A shrewd diplomat, Kissinger seemed to turn the tables on Mao, replying, "It is such a novel proposition, we will have to study it."
The two leaders then spoke briefly about the threat posed by the Soviet Union, with Mao saying he hoped Moscow would attack China and be defeated.
But Mao again lamented, "We have so many women in our country that don'’t know how to fight.
The assistant Chinese foreign minister, Wang Haijung, who was at the meeting, then cautioned Mao that if the minutes of the conversation were made public, "it would incur the public wrath."
Kissinger agreed with Mao that the minutes be scrapped.
But when Kissinger joked that he would raise the issue at his next press conference, Mao said, "I'’m not afraid of anything.
"Anyway, God has sent me an invitation," said the Chinese leader, who coughed badly during the talks.
Mao died in September 1976. US-China diplomatic relations were restored in 1979.
My little Chinese friend "Valerie" (unfortunately married) is just an angel on this Earth - and San Francisco is loaded with women like her. Kissinger should have taken Mao up on this offer - might have neutralized our peculiar breed of angry gender feminists before they had a chance to take over academia. ;)
You obviously haven’t spent anytime around the HOT Latinas on Miami Beach or Key Biscayne. ‘-)
American men seem to have a fetish for Chinese women. Must be an Anglo-Saxon thing. They all look the s...no, won’t go there...
Is that a ginseng root growing out of her forehead?
lol...yeah, no doubt Mao had the likes of her in mind.
I had to look hard at the photo when I saw it. I believe it is a cane beside her. (But who knows for sure?)
Ten Million happy American men
7 Million really p.o.'d American women.
Please don’t post this crap to me. I don’t want it on my pings.
I don’t appreciate the sexual harassment.
to think that for a couple of decades now people have been spending thousands and thousands just to adopt a little Chinese girl.....Americans might just value them more than he Chinese..
Care to share what you posted in Chinese?
You complained because it was rude the men posted pictures of beautiful women - which I agree can be a little annoying, but is more along the lines of “boys will be boys”.
Yet you converse in a foreign language, and don’t bother to translate for the rest of us? Frankly I find that to be more rude than anything the “boys” on this thread posted.
"Haha, should be a tall tale." (trans: urban legend? false news?)
"Truth"
I'll tell you after you ask huanghuaqiang the same question.
You complained because it was rude the men posted pictures of beautiful women - which I agree can be a little annoying, but is more along the lines of “boys will be boys”.
"Boys" inflicting their sex obsession on modest conservative women is perverted.
Yet you converse in a foreign language, and don’t bother to translate for the rest of us? Frankly I find that to be more rude than anything the “boys” on this thread posted.
Well, I guess you told me!
Can you please print a little clearer, looks like Chinese to me.
So, that’s where Vincente Fox got the idea.
Zey would haff to meet zertain physical characteristics, ja?
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