Mao Talks About Chinese Women

Why was he like that? Mao offered 10m women for trade with US Mao Zedong proposed sending 10 million women to the United States during talks with top US envoy Henry Kissinger in 1973, according to newly released documents. He first suggested sending 'thousands' of women, but as an afterthought proposed '10 million', drawing laughter at the meeting, also attended by premier Zhou Enlai. Dr Kissinger, who was president Richard Nixon's national security adviser at the time, told Mao that the US had no 'quotas' or 'tariffs' for Chinese women, drawing more laughter. 'Let them go to your place. They will create disasters. That way you can lessen our burdens,' he said. 'Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you 10 million.' Dr Kissinger then tried to highlight to Mao the threat posed by the Soviet Union and other global concerns of the era. But Mao dragged the talks back to the topic of Chinese women.

A stylized cartoon of Mao Zedong appears beside an article about his 1973 conversation with Henry Kissinger, in which Mao repeatedly discussed sending Chinese women to the United States. The joke comes from the absurd persistence of the topic despite Kissinger trying to discuss larger geopolitical concerns, making the image useful as a reaction to someone behaving strangely or fixating on an inappropriate subject. EN: A stylized cartoon of Mao Zedong appears beside an article about his 1973 conversation with Henry Kissinger, in which Mao repeatedly discussed sending Chinese women to the United States. The joke comes from the absurd persistence of the topic despite Kissinger trying to discuss larger geopolitical concerns, making the image useful as a reaction to someone behaving strangely or fixating on an inappropriate subject.

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