Edited sentence: And the current America perception of the China rising as a China Threat goes contrary to how China has behaved historically, as evidenced in Zheng He's saga.Even the scanty remains that escaped demolition might have allowed the Europeans to go very far on their attempts to colonize the World in the half century that followed.Most of his records were destroyed and building of ships with more than 3 masts were considered crimes punishable by death.So, a large part of his excursion has no reports.The Chinese Court Mandarins decided that ruling the World was not exactly characteristic of  China, so they aborted Zheng's plan by burning all his records.The records Zheng collected in his several voyages around the World epitomize a plan to rule the World.This same characteristics were grossly misinterpreted in historical accounts by the West during the last days of the Qing Dynasty.Zheng He’s accomplishment of world expansion was later targeted by traditional Chinese scholars of court mandarins as going counter to Chinese culture based on Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism