WI: Chinese stele found in Australia

What if a Chinese stele dated to the mid 15th century were found somewhere along the coast of the Northern Territory or Western Australia? What effect would it have on Australian history and contemporary Chinese politics?

Also, let me know if this belongs in After 1900 - I'm assuming a discovery of the stele sometime in the last hundred years.
 
Unless it's in a good, identifiable and dateable, context, most archaeologists would probably just say that a junk got massively off-course trying to get to the Andamans or something.
 
What if it was in such a context? Say, the stele gives a specific year, names of officers leading the expedition, and details that they founded a colony at the location in the name of the Ming emperor.
 

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What if it was in such a context? Say, the stele gives a specific year, names of officers leading the expedition, and details that they founded a colony at the location in the name of the Ming emperor.
Nothing, the guy who placed it becomes like Leif Erickson is known in North America, the British colonize Australia as they hardly recognized spains claims to all of the Americas when they colonized that.
 
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