Opinion | The Chinese eunuch who beat admiral Zheng He to Ma

Opinion | The Chinese eunuch who beat admiral Zheng He to Malacca, and the exchanges that followed between its rulers and China

Seeing Malacca in Malaysia today, it is hard to imagine the extent of its territory hundreds of years ago. The influence of its European colonists is well known, that of imperial China much less so.

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