Mao offered U.S. 10 million women

Ap via CNN ^ | 02/15/08

[riverdawg]

Yes, and now there is a worrisome shortage of men (even though the one-child policy is no longer in effect).

[Kevmo]

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[Gay State Conservative]

And,ten years later,Castro offered us thousands and thousands and thousands of men and women (from his prisons and mental hospitals).

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: "Most industry in China is in private hands"

Depends upon the meaning of "private hands."

"[China's] factory owners are mostly privileged children of party officials – 90 per cent of China's billionaires are the children of senior cadres – who have a reputation for spending more time in karaoke lounges than boardrooms. They are ill-equipped to act as innovators and entrepreneurs."

Is there any independently supported reason not to believe this? E.g, another news article from a more-or-less trusted source.

Yes, the early Soviets made mistakes, the ideologues terminated NEP before it was time. I think that the nepmen had quickly become almost half the Soviet economy. And of course FDI flowed in.

Deng grilled Armand Hammer for firsthand information.

[Berosus]

But don’t they have a shortage of women today, due to too many sex-selection abortions? A few years ago, I heard the male-female ration was 6/5.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Jabob was probably a distant ancestor of Smiling Jabob...

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, it’s resulted in a 40 million surplus of men. Of course, if the 10 million women had actually been exported or whatever, the surplus would have wound up lower in the lower age ranges.

[Political Junkie Too]

Ooh... a tough choice...

72 virgins later or 10 million Chinese girls now...

-PJ

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

The Chinese have a classic fascist economy and society.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

There’s a shortage of women in China, not a shortage of men. They have kidnappings and forced marriages in the provinces. Mao probably wanted to force a women shortage on China to “encourage” young men to join the military.

[ladyjane]

No, it’s a worrisome shortage of women.

All those young men in China, with no women, and an excess of testosterone. Very dangerous.

[Clemenza]

In many ways, you are right. The governement influence is more corporatist than communist. Again, Deng and his associates were much smarter than anyone in the Soviet Union.

[riverdawg]

Yes - I meant to type “women.” The surplus of men in China is potentially very destabilizing. Historically, empires with a surplus of men have started wars of aggression to annex neighboring countries and seize the women.