Mao, Kissinger and girls, girls, girls

The U.S. State Department released a historical document last week that resulted in what many considered merely an amusing news item.

It seems back in 1973, China's Chairman Mao Zedong was dialing for dollars with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Mao admitted he didn't have much with which to bargain. China was dirt poor 35 years ago. But that didn't deter the dictator who may be responsible for more deaths than any other man in human history – almost all of them Chinese.

"You know, China is a very poor country," Mao said, according to the document. "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."

It may have seemed like a joke to Kissinger – at first. But, a few minutes later, Mao circled back to the offer.

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"Do you want our Chinese women?" he asked. "We can give you 10 million. Let them go to your place. They will create disasters. That way you can lessen our burdens."

After Kissinger noted Mao was "improving his offer," the chairman said, "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."

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

A few of things strike me about this that were not noticed by the rest of the media:

• Kissinger never offered Mao a solution to his problem – too many women. As a result, China began its draconian one-child policy, which resulted in sex-selection abortions, which resulted in a massive surplus of boys in the country. China is still afflicted with this dilemma today.

   

• This conversation, ironically, took place in 1973 – the same year as the Roe v. Wade ruling in the U.S. The conventional wisdom among elitists like Kissinger in 1973 was that we were facing a population explosion with dire consequences for the U.S. and the rest of the world. Today, of course, we supposedly need to import millions of illegal workers to "do the jobs Americans won't do."

   

• This was a pretty amazing offer by Mao, yet Kissinger never bothered to tell the world about it – even after Mao's death. Isn't that peculiar? Did Kissinger pursue it further? Did he ever ask any questions about Mao's offer? Did he intend to allow 10 million women to volunteer to move to the U.S.? Or did he plan to coerce women to do so? Did it make any difference to Kissinger?

   

• The major media purposely and carefully censored comments by Mao that were about as anti-women as any public figure has ever made. Why the sanitization of Mao's words? Why does this dead, mass-murdering tyrant still get the whitewash treatment by the press 35 years later?

   

• It's ironic that the biggest fans of Mao's one-child policy are feminists. Mao was obviously one of the biggest male chauvinists of all time. Both of them liked a managed population program that meant forced abortions and sex-selection abortions that greatly reduced the population of girls. Politics, indeed, makes for strange bedfellows.

   

• Kissinger went on to make lots of deals with China – which admittedly didn't have much. But China did have plenty to offer eventually – especially when it was fully capitalized by the American aid that was quick to follow the playing of Richard Nixon's China card.

One of the things China had to offer was special favors. China needed help negotiating the uncharted seas of diplomacy and international high finance, so it could unleash its first industrial age.

Guess whose services China bought to open the taps to U.S. investment?

That's right – Henry Kissinger, who remains to this day a paid foreign agent of the Chinese government.

Personally, I think there is no worse conflict of interest in the world than for a former high-ranking official to be permitted to go to work for a foreign government, capitalizing the contacts he made and favors he did as a public servant.

It's a scandal.

It also begins to explain why Kissinger never bothered to tell the world about Mao's incredible offer to dump 10 million unwanted Chinese women in America – if we would take them, or pay for them.

Kissinger has been in business ever since of covering up China's human rights abuses and its imperialistic ambitions. He serves his masters well. But he does not serve the interests of the United States and never did.

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