Why didn't East Asians colonize the Americas?

>>2622653
All of them were pretty bad at making boats, IIRC.

>>2622653
the Ming cut Zhan He's funding

>>2622653
Zheng He's work was literally burned up by one of the Chinese emperors, and after that, China never really went exploring again.

I'm less clear on the other East Asian countries.

They didn't see any value in it. Also, the Pacific Ocean is a lot bigger than the Atlantic.

>>2622653

Wind blows the wrong way. They /could/ have hugged the coast all the way from katchatka to alaska but its a LONG way and there's really nothing when you get there anyway, nothing of value to a medieval Nip anyway.

>>2622684
Polynesians could do it. Spaniards could do it.

The winds

>>2622691

Never said it would have been impossible.

Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese all had insular cultures that didn't care much.

Europeans were remarkably outward thinking and expeditionary.

>>2622653
>smart lanklets kill each other
>dumb manlets dont
What?

>>2622653
The Pacific Ocean is big.

>>2622776
Pretty much this. Asians had a tendency of establishing whatever the fuck they considered there's and then staying there, breeding long periods of stagnation.

>>2622653
>tfw to inteligent to not kill people

>>2622653
Gooks are too collectivist to establish colonies in anything less than enormous swarms. The idea of a few dozen gooks running off away from the community, possibly forever, to start a new life in a new land would be unthinkable.

The Europeans barely wanted to

>>2622653
They don't like moving past their ancestral homelands. The Japanese would have done it during their age of imperialism if it were still possible.

>>2622653
Wait, isn't there evidence they had contact?

>>2622653
They did. Have you ever been on the US west coast?

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>>2622653
Europeans had incentive to explore both for economic and religious reasons. The church's Doctrine of Discovery and terra nullius were mighty persuasive.

>>2623512
http://westerndigs.org/asian-metal-found-in-alaska-reveals-trade-centuries-before-european-contact/

Contact, not colonization.

>>2623524
Isn't Buddhism also a Missionary Religion? Or am I mistaken?