China in North America

https://www.facebook.com/don.elzer.7/posts/pfbid02ZP5suVX7SgawxesoXDvSHATsCTg5oxJKwyVrYnCH9ZmdtuJ2L5QjS9FMCP8PzpXil It’s so bizarre as to how a piece of history gets marginalized and then forgotten. To early European explorers in North America it was a known fact that the Chinese had colonized the Pacific North Coast all the way to northern California. The Chinese called this territory Fushang and it was well supplied for quite sometime until it was abandoned by the empire centuries before the Spaniards arrived. Yes their people completely abandoned…what might we think happened? This part of history is well studied in China. I used to share with my colleagues when they became all excited about Chinese trade missions and investments, I would say, “You do realize that they think that this land is there’s right?” They were always confused by this because the historical record of it had been erased here. One colonizer making a deal with another colonizer. But now here’s a study.…