Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and conservative influencer Laura Loomer blasted the idea.

Donald Trump’s latest comments about allowing hundreds of thousands of Chinese international students into the United States have drawn criticism from some of the most outspoken members of the Republican Party.

Ahead of his meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung at the White House on Monday, Trump told reporters that he plans to allow 600,000 Chinese students into the country — a figure more than double the number in the United States now.

It’s a sharp departure from an announcement Secretary of State Marco Rubio made in May, when he promised the United States would “aggressively revoke” visas for Chinese students and add more scrutiny to all future visa applications from China.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    https://foreignpolicy.com/2008/02/15/mao-offered-kissinger-10-million-chinese-women/

    Mao offered Kissinger 10 million Chinese women

    SAToday‘s “OnDeadline” blog finds some choice morsels from newly released transcripts of Henry Kissinger’s 1973 meeting with Mao:

    You know, China is a very poor country," Mao is quoted as saying during the exchange. “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.” The Chinese leader drew laughter when he returned to the proposition a few minutes later. “Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you 10 million.” he said, adding: “We have too many women … They give birth to children and our children are too many.”

    It’s not clear whether Mao is at all serious — he was a pretty crazy dude, after all — but Kissinger’s response is precious:

    It is such a novel proposition, we will have to study it.

    EDIT: I’d also add that I was fairly sure that there was a second quote from some other diplomatic exchange in which someone, I thought Mao, offered 1 million Chinese people (not specifically women), with the phrasing something like “What is it that you want? Is it people? We can provide 1 million people”, but I guess it’s possible that I’m just misremembering some reference to the above.

    considers

    Might have been me accurately remembering Kissinger mis-remembering too, since I’ve read some of his material on diplomacy with China, and the source material wouldn’t have been declassified at the time the books were written, so I assume that he wouldn’t be able to directly use it in writing his books.

    • ruan@lemmy.eco.br
      1·
      1 day ago

      Your source is not credible.

      It’s not clear wheter Mao os ar all serious

      Yeah, the original transcript is really not clear whether Mao joking or not with that sentence…

      Dr. Kissinger: We think they will give it to us. It will be a difficult battle, but we are quite certain we will win. We are proposing it also in such general language that we can remove discrimination that still exists towards the People’s Republic.

      Chairman Mao: The trade between our two countries at present is very pitiful. It is gradually increasing. You know China is a very poor country. We don’t have much. What we have in excess is women. (Laughter)

      Dr. Kissinger: There are no quotas for those or tariffs.

      Chairman Mao: So if you want them we can give a few of those to you, some tens of thousands. (Laughter)

      Prime Minister Chou: Of course, on a voluntary basis.

      Chairmain Mao: Let them go to your place. They will create disasters. That way you can lessen our burdens. (Laughter)

      [Page 131]

      Dr. Kissinger: Our interest in trade with China is not commercial. It is to establish a relationship that is necessary for the political relations we both have.

      Chairman Mao: Yes.

      Dr. Kissinger: That is the spirit with which we are conducting our discussions.

      …

      Chairman Mao: (Laughing) Those are honest words.

      Dr. Kissinger: This is our position.

      Chairman Mao: Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million. (Laughter, particularly among the women.)

      Dr. Kissinger: The Chairman is improving his offer.

      Chairman Mao: By doing so we can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. 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. (Laughter) [Page 132]

      Dr. Kissinger: It is such a novel proposition, we will have to study it.

      Chairman Mao: You can set up a committee to study the issue. That is how your visit to China is settling the population question. (Laughter)

      Complete source: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v18/d12

      Ahh, actually the transcript said there was laugther all along that exchange about China being poor and having an excess of woman population, how could this Foreign Policy writer have guessed if Mao was being serious ir not?!

      Edit: And I just read a little bit more of the transcript of this conversation, futher down:

      Chairman Mao: (Looking toward Miss Shen.) The Chinese have a good command of English. (To Prime Minister Chou.) Who is she?

      Prime Minister Chou: Miss Shen Jo-yun.

      Chairman Mao: Girls. (Prime Minister Chou laughs.) Today I have been uttering some nonsense for which I will have to beg the pardon of the women of China.

      Dr. Kissinger: It sounded very attractive to the Americans present.(Chairman Mao and the girls laugh.)

      Mao apologises for his jokes about women in China that were made Just a few moments before… Damn, but who would expect a Foreign Policy article writer to just have read the full transcript of this conversation he was quoting before wondering If Mao was really offering 10 million chinese women as a serious deal… We will really never know If that was a real offer by this Crazy Mao guy to the Saint Dr. Kissing gentleman… 🙄