I met an American Doctor with PHD degree in Beijing. Who asked some weird questions:" Where I can buy the Red Books?". "Why there are no the Red Guards on street?" I can see he is totally brain washed by US propaganda. He knows nothing about the current China. Believe me, Chinese know much more than you expected. And Americans know much less than you expected.
funny that they post the French record here, it is wasting time to argue with vietnamese,
While the western say Chinese are ignorant on the world, they don't know they are ignorant on China.
It's true that ancient China is the only nation in East Asia with enough wealth, man power and ambitions to perform long distance sea travel. But travelling from Vietnam to Paracels and Spartly does not require the same level of ship technology. With a wooden boat and a crew of 10, Vietnamese fishermen can fish for month before return to the land. Why couldn't ancient Vietnamese go to Paracels and Spartly to fish? There were no Chinese coast guards and Marine Surveillance at that time, weren't there? And Paracels and Spartly are closer to Vietnam, so the chance of Vietnamese fishermen used to fish there is higher.
I don't think you should take an American for example. No offense to OCguy but the net joke about American stupidity all the time. Like the majority of American don't know the Earth is round, or the sun is a star, or commonly known capitals of Europe countries.
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On the contrary, OCguy's view is fair. If you just don't have any other sources than from your own government and also refuse to accept anything else, then it is called "brainwashed".
You have no CLEAR FACT to prove what you said. If your ancestors could travel a long distance on SCS, there must be a certain number of Vietnamese fishermen's descendants all along the SCS coasts, in Philippine islands, Malaysia, Indonesia etc. Just like there are many Chinese descendants in these countries now.
It's not easy to become a Doctor in USA. But very easy to become a businessman in China. The Chinese businessman has bias on your daily life. The USA Doctor has bias on Chinese political system. China's government has no interest in brainwashing ppl on your life style.
Desperate American trying hide your hypocrisy.
How does it related to US applying double standard and make false accusation in world communities? Or you want to say Snowden is actually a Chinese having face lift and sneak into CIA as white man to do the damage?
Like I said ancient Vietnamese fishermen worked there. There are many Chinese all around ASEAN, due to the fact ancient Chinese fled to the south when northen barbarians invaded or Chinese dynasties changed (insert boat people joke here). Ancient Vietnamese on the other hands often fled to Cambodia, South Vietnam (Vietnam just expanded to South Vietnam in 17th century) or even to China. Few Vietnamese took the sea as an escape route because Vietnam didn't have the ship technology to travel long distances.
