Monday, October 19, 2009

Chairman Mao was a crazy person

The more historical evidence that comes to light, the clearer it becomes that Mao was a pretty ignorant and unsophisticated person who was not qualified to lead a country. Lacking knowledge of governance, economics, sociology, etc, he appears to have been bumbling along on the steam of his own narrow-minded preconceptions of how the world works. For instance, when meeting with Kissinger in 1973, just after diplomatic relations with the US had been re-established, Mao proposed sending 10 million Chinese women to the US. He said that this would solve part of China's population problem, and since these women were apparently so good at reproducing, they would overwhelm the US with a population boom of Chinese, thus wreaking havoc on the US economy. What a brilliant, feasible, and convincing plan to strike back at the US, right? Makes SO MUCH SENSE.

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