Chinese fleets sail out... somewhere scenarios

1421 craziness aside, having ancient Chinese ships end up settling in New Zealand sound like a promising idea. Though judging by the sea currents map they might as well go to SE Asia, or northern Australia.
 
I always like "What if China discovers Antarctica?" because it would be completely useless but a hell of an effort

AND we'd have Chinese penguins

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Grey Wolf

The Emperor Penguins would have sided with the KMT, which could have swung the balance against Mao, imo
 
I think the Ming period gets a lot of attention because there is a lot of information on it. But in my reading I have found snippets of info on earlier periods, I`ve read that during the Song period 200 foot 4 masted ocean going junks were around. It is probably on the groundwork laid by the these ships in the past that allowed the Ming to build the Treasure Fleet and know where they were going and for what purpose.
That's interesting. What do you think would be different without the Mongol conquests?
 
China had large sailing ships quite capable of transoceanic travel at different points in their history. I do not think that it would be implausible for them to start colonies in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, North America or Central America, or even parts of Africa. Perhaps by a fluke all of the above! There are several interesting parallels between parts of mesoamerican culture and that of eastern Asia, so maybe it is more than coincidence that some of the mesoamerican gods look almsot buddha-like in their stances?
 
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