This is something Western media will never show you

It was from here that:

http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0302/c90000-9184779.html

the Muslim Ming Admiral Zheng He, sailed the fleets into the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.

His was a junk weight 24,000 tons. Drake sailed around the world in his ship the Golden Hind. It weighed 5 tons.

Then the succeeding Ming Emperor decreed the destruction all all Ming ships, the burning of all records of the travels of Zheng He order destruction of all records as to how to build ships.

This idiot Emperor was determined that China was to have nothing to do with the barbarian world. They were never to come into China to contaminate her.

Of this was the beginning of China's stagnation that led to its eventual decay and near death as verified by Ava Gardner and Charlton Heston in the 55 Days in Peking.

But this was then,

Today, China is reclaiming: 
       (i). the glory of her Imperial Past in its 21st Century form 
       (ii). and her position as the largest economy in the world.

Will it happen?

What do you think?
Can a contemporary nation only: 
                240 years old with a population of 324,420,000 

take on a nation that is over 

              4000 years old with a population of 1,382,710,000?

What is your guess?