Archive for February, 2008

10 million women

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

According to this article at CNN, during trade negotiations with the United States in 1973, Mao Zedong offered Henry Kissinger 10 million Chinese women, saying that “We have too many women…They give birth to children and our children are too many”.
I’m not sure what Mao wanted in exchange, but to me it certainly sounds like [...]