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u/PabloPiscobar Relational School (hourly diplomacy conference enjoyer) 21h ago
The paper I wrote for a grad school project, about Afro-Asian (mostly Afro-Chinese) people in Mozambique, I opened by talking about Mao's proposal to population transfer 10,000,000 women to the US.
It would've been really interesting if Nixon and Kissinger by mistake-or on purpose-accepted Mao's proposal and in short order converted ~5% of the US population to Chinese women.
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u/Adventurous_Touch342 19h ago
Ironic considering modern China...
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u/defariasdev 2h ago
Not ironic. Mao thinking there's an excess of women is what led to their longer being enough women
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u/StickShift5 16h ago
Considering how many girls I've met who were adopted from China, we basically got them with extra steps.
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u/Whats-on-Eur-Mind Imperialist (Expert Map Painter, PDS Veteran) 14h ago
His wife probably issued a veto.
Too bad, Zeihan could have talked endlessly about how it contributed to China's coming TOTAL DEMOGRAPHIC COLLAPSE 😱
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u/Independent_Depth674 19h ago
Why didn’t he go for it?
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u/VladimirBarakriss Neoliberal (China will become democratic if we trade enough!) 18h ago
Mao offered all the short women and Kissinger was a climber
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u/fromkatain 13h ago
China has less females than males now they need 10 million russian females to compensate
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u/Even_Fox2023 17h ago
TIL 10,000,000 Chinese women could have had better lives.
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u/lanicorain 15h ago
yeah, the US is famously a very easy place to live in for first generation immigrant women of color. just so much opportunity
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u/Thomas_633_Mk2 11h ago
just so much opportunity
This but unironically, why do you think the US has been getting immigration for centuries? Do you think they're all going there because it sucks so much? Even today, with everything going on, the US has a HDI of 0.938 and China has a HDI of 0.797.
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u/ini0n Doesn't understand Chinese foreign policy award 13h ago
Unironically, because the USA has been swamped with demand for immigration for decades. Millions move a year, many even risking it illegally, so they must be wanting to come for a reason.
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u/lanicorain 11h ago
There's a massive propaganda apparatus called Hollywood. Many of those millions don't know anything about how the country really works.
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u/ini0n Doesn't understand Chinese foreign policy award 9h ago
Well immigrate to Asia or the middle east as a woman and see how you go. There's a reason people want to move to the west. Because we're rich and the least racist/sexist/homophobic. Only in the west can you truly be accepted as a citizen and rise to the highest positions of power and importance.
We're not perfect just everyone else is worse.
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u/tragesorous 13h ago
Hey don’t talk about that part. He asked for it not to be in the record: the record states. Seriously look at the transcript
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