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There was a time when the sun never used to set on the British Empire. It looks like and in all probability, it will be the same for China under Xi Jinping a vision of a great nation he has, the Sun will never set over the Chinese islands, business/military Joint ventures spreading all over the world. Zheng He(Cheng Ho) a great Chinese explorer and admiral in the Ming Dynasty who made seven expeditions in the Indian ocean from 1405-1433 and adhered to the traditional Confucian with the notion that China was superior to her neighbours. To spread Confucianism and the Chinese grandeur, a lot was spent on these voyage ships. On his seventh voyage, he died in 1433 in an Indian city Kozhikode (Calicut) in Kerala. The seven missions did expand China’s political control over most of maritime nations of Asia until the 19th century.
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