the Chinese authorities ran DNA tests on a number of villagers who claimed Chinese ancestry. “
I would imagine the ladies of the East Africcan coasts would have been glad to see some guys sail in with some coins in their chests.
“Been at sea long, sailor? Me give you good time.”
This new move by the Chinese to establish an imaginary past isn’t as bad as the phony histories spewed out of the various afrocentric and muzzie nationalist imaginations, but it’s still pretty bad. The events are only from about 500 years ago, and yet there was never the slightest mention of it — and the Age of Sail / Age of Discovery in Europe had already begun before the mid-15th c. All that’s been found so far is one rusty coin — not any sign of a settlement, a shipwreck, and no uncontestable folklore.