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  • 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… 🙄


  • There are many tiers of private information.

    You can definetly collect a lot of useful telemetry data without collecting any of the, lets say, “most sensitive” private information.

    Just to exemplify:

    • you can collect telemetry on the most acessed features of a software and associate it with their location: whilst collecting their location you can definetly choose between having the person’s specific location (GPS coordinates with a few meters of accuracy) or their broad location (i.e.: their city, state, or country).

      • with the broad location you can have insights on how users of your software behave per region and plan accordinly actions or those regions.

    Collecting someones specific location is definetly way more sensitive than their broad location…

    And the full content of all textual documents a person generates has a very high chance of containing of their most sensitive private information…