根據最新解密的美國國務院外交檔案，中共已故領導人毛澤東1973年在與美國特使基辛格會談時，曾經建議將一千萬名中國婦女送到美國去。毛澤東表示，這種移民既可以開展雙方的貿易，還可以造成美國的“傷害”，讓美國和中國一樣，飽嘗人口過多的痛苦。
法新社報道，美國國務院2月13日公布1973至1976年的解密外交檔案。根據檔案，1973年毛澤東在會見基辛格時，作出了上述建議。
兩人是於1973年2月17日，在毛澤東住處開始這段直到午夜才結束的冗長對話。當談到兩國可憐的貿易數字時，煙不離手的毛澤東說：中國是一個“非常窮的國家”，“我們最多的就是女人”。
毛澤東的第一次提議，是讓“幾千個”中國婦女到美國，但後來加碼到了“一千萬”，引起與會者大笑。當時的國務院總理周恩來也在場。
基辛格時任尼克松政府的國家安全顧問，他當時也知趣地響應毛澤東的話說，對於中國婦女到美國，美國並無設定“配額”，也不會徵收關稅。基辛格的話引來更多的笑聲。
其後，基辛格試着把話題轉移到蘇聯威脅的問題，但毛澤東卻又回到“千萬婦女輸出”話題上說：“讓這些女人去美國，她們將會製造災難，中國的負擔也會減輕”。
毛澤東又說：“你們要中國女人嗎？我們可以給你們一千萬。”對此，基辛格特別紀錄指出：毛澤東提高了建議數量。毛澤東繼續說：“這麼一來，她們會讓你們 的國家充滿災難，損害你們的利益，我們國家的女人太多了”，“她們會生小孩，而我們的小孩已經太多了。”基辛格當時回說：“這真是一個奇妙的提議，我們會 研究一下。”
隨後兩人談到了蘇聯威脅問題，毛澤東說，他希望蘇聯進攻中國，而且最終被打敗。但沒說兩句，毛澤東又說：“我們國家的女人太多了，真不知道該怎麼辦。”
當時在場的女性、中國外交部部長助理王海容隨即提醒毛說，這些對話如果公開，可能會引起民眾反感。基辛格當時同意毛澤東的主張，這段對話必須消去。
但當基辛格開玩笑，說他準備在下一場記者會中公開這段對話時，毛澤東說：“我什麼都不怕”，“不管怎麼樣，上帝已經在呼喚我了”。毛在雙方會談中咳得非常厲害。毛澤東後來在1976年過世。
以下來自是英文網站的新聞：
Chairman Mao proposed sending 10 million Chinese women to US: documents
Thursday, 14 February 2008
WASHINGTON - Mao Zedong proposed sending 10 million Chinese women to the United States, in talks with top envoy Henry Kissinger in 1973, according to documents released today.
The powerful chairman of the Chinese Communist Party said he believed such emigration could kick-start bilateral trade but could also "harm" the United States with a population explosion similar to China, according to documents released by the State Department on US-China ties between 1973 to 1976.
In a long conversation that stretched way past midnight at Mao's residence on February 17, 1973, the cigar-chomping Chinese leader referred to the dismal trade between the two countries, saying China was a "very poor country" and "what we have in excess is women."
He first suggested sending "thousands" of women but as an afterthought proposed "10 million," drawing laughter at the meeting, also attended by Chinese premier Zhou Enlai.
Kissinger, who was President Richard Nixon's national security adviser at that time, told Mao that the United States had no "quotas" or "tariffs" for Chinese women, drawing more laughter.
Kissinger then tried to highlight to Mao the threat posed by the Soviet Union and other global concerns as he moved to lay the groundwork for restoring diplomatic ties a year after Nixon's historic visit to China.
But Mao dragged the talks back to the topic of Chinese women.
"Let them go to your place. They will create disasters. That way you can lessen our burdens," Mao said.
"Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million," he said.
Kissinger noted that Mao was "improving his offer."
Mao continued, "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."
A shrewd diplomat, Kissinger seemed to turn the tables on Mao, replying, "It is such a novel proposition, we will have to study it."
The two leaders then spoke briefly about the threat posed by the Soviet Union, with Mao saying he hoped Moscow would attack China and be defeated.
But Mao again lamented, "We have so many women in our country that don't know how to fight.
The assistant Chinese foreign minister, Wang Haijung, who was at the meeting, then cautioned Mao that if the minutes of the conversation were made public, "it would incur the public wrath."
Kissinger agreed with Mao that the minutes be scrapped.
But when Kissinger joked that he would raise the issue at his next press conference, Mao said, "I'm not afraid of anything.
"Anyway, God has sent me an invitation," said the Chinese leader, who coughed badly during the talks.
Mao died in September 1976. US-China diplomatic relations were restored in 1979.
