| Currently the Chinese Government is building up | | | | 960-1279 AD. They had mapped nearby oceans |
| its war machine. It is buying Russian High-Tech Mig | | | | and traveled much of the Pacific Ocean and Indian |
| Fighters and building ships and submarines. Many in | | | | Ocean. This continued thru the Ming Dynasty and |
| the present period do not see the Chinese as a | | | | the Chinese had one of the largest seaports ever |
| super power on the Water or the kind of nation | | | | in the history of mankind in Gangtan. They |
| with a huge Navy, yet for those who doubt | | | | promoted trade with the world by sea. |
| Chinese ambitions for a Super Power of the Seas | | | | The famous Admiral Zheng traveled to 37 |
| forget History. | | | | countries between the 1405 and 1433 and the |
| You see over one hundred years before the | | | | Dynasty had 317 Ships and 37,000 men. After |
| Magellan's 1519 voyage was the height of the | | | | Zheng died there was a rise of Confucianism and |
| Chinese Treasure Fleet and these were no | | | | a more introspective displacement and inward |
| ordinary ships. At the peak period of 1405-1433 | | | | rather than outward view of the world and the |
| the Chinese Treasure Fleet had ships as big as | | | | Navy slowly disbanded. But the first real Navy of |
| 440 to 500 feet long and they were the first to | | | | the World was Chinese, it was not a European |
| use bulkhead construction to make them strong | | | | Power. |
| so they could build them bigger. Presumably these | | | | So for those who doubt the power of the many |
| bulkheads were designed by copying nature, | | | | and potential of China's war machine, well you are |
| bamboo poles to be exact. Some of the Chinese | | | | simply ignorant of history and what the Chinese |
| Treasure Fleet ships towered over three stories | | | | are capable of. You see the Chinese understand |
| about the deck. | | | | their roots and history and know what they can |
| In fact much of the Chinese History of maritime | | | | do. Think on this. |
| exploits go back to the Song Dynasty of | | | | |