The Elephant in the China Shop

The long history of Sino-African relations would not be complete without a reference to Zheng He. Zheng He was a fourteenth-century admiral who completed several voyages to the historic kingdoms of Mogadishu, Brava (Barawa), Juba (present-day Somalia) and Malindi (present-day Kenya) along the East African coast. Relics of these voyages have been discovered through the expeditions of scientists, such as the 600-year-old Chinese coin unearthed on the Kenyan island of Manda in 2013. According to le

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