WI: Heavenly Dominion of Nandaoguo

What is the possibility that Chinese explorers reached Australia and colonized it, or better yet The White Lotus Society escaping persecution in Ming China landed on Australia, and further waves of immigrants followed? Nandaoguo means South Island Country in Chinese...
 
What is the possibility that Chinese explorers reached Australia and colonized it, or better yet The White Lotus Society escaping persecution in Ming China landed on Australia, and further waves of immigrants followed? Nandaoguo means South Island Country in Chinese...

Well they'd have real trouble growing crops in Australian soil, the coastal provinces the settlers would come from wouldn't really have a ranching technological package (and transport is too slow to export meats), and its tricky to get down to Australia from SEA due to the winds (you have to really know what you're doing).

Simply put, colonisering Australia is really hard - it wasn't that the Malays were just lazy that prevented development...
 
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