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I feel like you kind of sang their praises there considering they barely accomplished anything and then outlawed fleets just in time for the age of exploration followed by a losing war and colonization by Japan, who for comparison had always maintained a strong navy until falling short of the west's canons and superior siege warfare tactics for a brief period. I kind of doubt China would have achieved much even if they had kept the boats around.