Hey dickhead, why you bad mouthing Ming Dynasty history. LKY has his notorious bad behaviours like the Operation Spectrum and jailing oppo with ISA law. But he has done good things too, a great architect built a modern Singapore from scratch...
Ming Dynasty funded the expedition to mark earth landscapes and make a map of the earth. That's it.
Stick to my narrative to debate and not go out of point, dumbtwit.
It is indeed after 1421 the Europeans steal the map and set to sail round and discover the world... Europeans invasion of SEA, Australia and America started after 1421 taking the sea routes go to NZ and way down to Antarctic Oceans....
The fucking BE had been saying they found this and that land. Raffles said he found Singapore in 1819. Europeans found America in 1478, 50 years layer after 1421, and so on... get it... do you think Europeans were that high tech genius at that time? Tribalism still use spears and sword fighting... until they learn to make gunpowder from China... change new ways to fight wars...
Cut and paste all negative articles about China doesn't help improve your argument...