The Chinese Super-Fleet: a World that Might Have Been

Published: March 11, 2017, 12:30 a.m.

b'Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon imagine a what-if world in which 15th-century China did not abandon its naval dominance\\n\\n\\xa0\\n500 years ago, China destroyed its world-dominating navy because its political elite was afraid of free trade\\n\\nIn the 1400s, China owned the greatest seagoing fleet in the world, up to 3,500 ships at its peak. (The U.S. Navy today has only 430). Some of them were five times the size of the ships being built in Europe at the time.\\n\\nWhat if they hadn\\u2019t?\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n-- Chinese-settled Americas?\\n\\n-- Chinese-colonized Africa?\\n\\n-- Chinese-controlled and dominated Europe?\\n\\n-- Or world war much sooner?\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nBREAKING: Elon Musk And SpaceX Are Sending Humans to the Moon\\n\\nThe space company said in a statement that the two individuals have \\u201calready paid a significant deposit\\u201d to do a Moon mission. Initial training, along with health and fitness tests, are set to occur later this year, SpaceX continued.\\n\\nOTHER GEEK\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nFinally talk some Rogue One\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nWT 276-585'