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What if China never turned itself to isolation and let Zheng He, and Hong Bao to explore more until they landed in a fertile area let say in Botany Bay or in Darwin and decides to colonize Australia after the Ming is being overthrown by the Manchus.
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Dutch explores the Australia's east coast and lands in Botany Bay and colonize then the Dutch realize themselves that their numbers are too small to colonize in their own right and decides to recruit Chinese or Indonesian workers to develop Australia in case they discover a gold deposits or cultivates the arable land.
What would be the effects to world history if Australia is largely populated by the Chinese and Malays instead of the Europeans in OTL?