[ReneeLynn]

Soon the Chinese will claim to have been the first in North America.

[3niner]

Soon the Chinese will claim to have been the first in North America.

Native Americans are generally considered to be "asian".

[muawiyah]

Regarding "first in America", there's this interesting stone at the base of the Cahokia mound ~ only it's inside buried under tons and tons of earth.

All things considered that stone would have been set at about the time the Treasure Fleet was drifting about.

Obviously one of those very large Chinese ships would not have made it up the Mississippi, but they did have smaller boats with them and carried all the technology they needed to make more of them no matter where they traveled.

Regarding leaving behind some DNA, that'd been fairly invisible in the local North American Indian populations of the time since, for the most part, they and the Chinese shared a common ancestry.

[mamelukesabre]

Uh, hello?

american indians came from siberia/mongolia...THEY’RE CHINESE

[Joe 6-pack]

"Soon the Chinese will claim to have been the first in North America."

That notion was being floated at least as far back as 2004.

[wtc911]

Soon the Chinese will claim to have been the first in North America.

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They were, over the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago. Ever doubt it just go visit Peru.