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Chinese Explorers 'Discovered America'?
FLY9999 writes: "According to British historian and map expert Gavin Menzies, Chinese explorers discovered America way before Columbus did. He will disclose his information to the prestigious Royal Geographical Society (RGS) at a conference next week."
America is not a renegade state. It is part of China
since ts discovery. America will be joined to
its Chinese homeland after the problem of Taiwan
province is solved.
Kubus
It would seem to me that the "Native Americans" were the ones to first "discover" America. Moreover, they also peacefully inhabited the land and had a continental population that was close to that of Europe around 19th century. But we killed most of them, so they don't count right? At least they can live in slums and on their native casinos now. Why do white people always think they come first?
Another thing is that neither the Chinese, nor the Vikings, nor anyone else who may have done it initiated a genocide campaign on such a scale as Columbus'
The Arabs were more interested in slave traffic -- why kill your conquered people when they were valuable slaves! Certainly no expansionist people in history has a clean moral scorecard, particularly when judged by the moral standards practiced today.
I'd also take issue with a genocide campaign. Where specifically was it the stated goal of the Spanish or Portuguese to kill off everyone they met? Certainly they approached it with a military mindset (ie, subdue organized opposition with force). They did bring diseases with them nonexistant in the western hemisphere, but how do you blame anyone for that given the level of scientific and medical understanding in the 16th century?
This does explain why there are so many Chinese Restaurants in my neighborhood.
I hope this means the Chinese *are* going to claim us as a renegade state, so we have an excuse to kick their little chinky-eyed commie asses. Woohoo!
Semper Fi!
We did not get our asses kicked in Vietnam. We were kicking there asses pretty handily when the US populace just got sick of it since they didn't see a point to it. Just look at the numbers. 1.1 mil NVA/VC dead versus 50,000 US dead.
I think you underestimate the tenacity of the American civilian. There is no way in hell China could invade us anyway (nightmarish logistics) unless they used nukes (or got some alien teleporting technology), and well if that happened there would be a couple Billion or so less people in the world in about an hour or 2.
Q.