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