Zheng He's Floating City: When China Dominated the Oceans
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Length: 18min 16sec (1096 seconds)
Published: Wed Sep 04 2019
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And yet zero country was attacked/conquered/wiped out, even with such dominant forces.
I want a movie based on Zheng He, directed by Tsui Hark or Frant Gwo.
Unpopular opinion:
The long-term success of European colonization vs. the ultimate failure of Zheng He's ventures is one of the best arguments for private sector being more economically efficient than public sector for some industries.
Zheng He's ventures, despite their successes, were a huge drain on the Ming Imperial treasury, which made their cancellation a foregone conclusion, no empire is perpetually rich enough to fund operations like this.
The European countries relied on private companies to do most of their colonization. This ensure that whatever they did was going to be profitable. Profitable ventures tend to self perpetuate, obviously. This is why Europeans continued to colonize and become wealthy and powerful.
This isn't an endorsement for privatization across all industries, just the ones where a profit motive is necessary to keep the industry going.
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And yes, I know what some of you are going to say: "but the Europeans did such horrible things to the people they colonized!" And yes, that's true.
But the reality of human history is that people are always going to be doing shitty things to each other. You can either be a victim or a perpetrator. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd rather not be the former.