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Move over Columbus, admiral Zheng He is here

by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com
Friday, March 11, 2005

Mark May 16, 2005 as the day the history of the world will be rewritten.

That's the day when the United Nations will begin trying to convince the world that Christopher Columbus did not discover North america, a Chinese-Muslim explorer discovered us a half century before C.C.

No, this is not science fiction. It is today's cover story in Canada Free Press.

That the Canadian government has been selling off our natural resources, including the alberta tar sands to the Chinese government ought to be worry enough for any with the sovereignty of our nation in mind.

Now we have a yet to be identified "respected Canadian architect" headed to the United Nations to tell the tale of a lost Chinese city found on the atlantic Coast of North america.

This is a story that goes far beyond the romance of archeology and lost cities. This is a story that will put wings on a dream to convince the world that the Chinese arrived in the New World some 70 years before Christopher Columbus.

It is the beginning of a tale that could rewrite history and change the course of the world as we know it.

Gavin Menzies, a former British Navy submarine commander and author of the controversial best-selling book, 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, got the ball

The author, through a Canadian architect, has discovered what is believed to be the centuries lost naval base of China's most famous explorer.

Opening chapters begin with a revelation made by Menzies to an accommodating Malaysian newspaper. With the credibility of a former British Navy submarine commander and the status of being a published author, Menzies had no trouble attracting media attention.

With the United Nations in on the act, the classroom childrens' chant …"In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue," will be purged from history texts and ceremoniously drowned.

Controversy and criticism followed when Menzie's theory that the Chinese Muslim explorer, admiral Zheng He or Cheng Ho discovered the new world, hit international headlines in March of 2002.

Some three years later, Menzies is back in the headlines with his contention that an actual site has been found somewhere on the atlantic coast of North america, which may have been Zheng's naval base.

In other words, the proof of Menzie's pudding.

The discoverer of this atlantic coast site is a secret, described only by Menzies as a "distinguished Canadian architect". The mysterious architect will brief the Canadian Government and then go to UNESCO to make the discovery an official UN World Heritage Site.

May 16 is the Red Letter Day when public disclosure will be made at the Library of Congress.

It's adios, Columbus, hello Zheng.

In terms of news, "It's huge," Menzies said.

The naval site, about to be unveiled to the world afterall has remained hidden for 600 years.

"It has massive walls…and it's two-thirds the size of the Forbidden City…Walls, roads, the remains of foundations, graves, God-knows what.

"It would cost a vast amount of money to excavate this site. It's in a very difficult position to reach. We definitely do need a lot of money to carry on the research," according to the Malaysian daily.

Menzies says the $1.23 million (Cdn.) he's received to date from the sales of his book has already been ploughed back into research. But the scope of research required now outweighs what the author's finances can bear. "So I'm very, very interested in a foundation to raise money and carry on the research, particularly this site of Zheng He's."

The discovery of the site, he says, "absolutely confirms" his theories about China being in North america 70 years before Columbus. So much so that Menzies says "I could have predicted exactly where this base is, by the way."

Zheng who stood 8 feet tall loomed large in life. It now seems he's looming even larger in latter day history.

If Columbus had Spain's Queen Isabelle to bankroll his sea roving, Zheng was on missions for Emperor Zhu Din in the 15th century. Zheng commanded a larger-than-life fleet of giant Ming treasure junks.

Menzie's theory, Mezie's book and Zheng's fleet were all subjects of a recent Discovery Channel documentary.

Part of the documentary featured a retracing of the routes that Menzies believes the Chinese took from africa to Europe, to the Caribbean and along the eastern coast of North america.

Resurrecting the superpower that was China in the 15th-century, the documentary provided re-enactments, location shooting, and computer-generated models of Zhing's fleet.

The documentary also gave air time to experts who are opposed to Menzie's theory, the catalyst of a continuing cat fight among historians and academics.

In my-boat's-are-bigger-than-your-boats philosophy, it was noted that Zheng was the admiral of a "great fleet of big ships", with nine masts and manned by 500 men.

Zheng and Company plied the seas in great treasure ships over 300-feet long and 150-feet wide, the biggest being 440-feet long and 186-across, capable of carrying 1,000 passengers.

The Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria were all less than 50-feet long. Take that, Christopher Columbus.

Why history took so long to bring Zheng back to the surface in view of the fact that records of his travels still exist, despite the mistaken belief that they had been destroyed by the Ming emperors as advised by xenophobic Confucian officials, is lost in the fog of time.

Menzies claims that in Hong Kong and Singapore you can see the travel records for yourself by jumping a bus ride to a public library.

But now that the genie is already out of the bottle. a Chinese-government backed crew is already in Warmambool, australia looking for the wreck of one of Zheng's ships.

The masters of revisionists at Manhattan's United Nations are about to come into their own.

Welcome to the new world of North america, colony of the Republic of China.


Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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