NEW YORK (TIME Daily News), February 15, 2008:
"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."
- MAO ZEDONG
China's former leader, attempting to barter the country's women during trade discussions with the U.S. in 1973, according to a document released Thursday, by the State Department's historian office
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