Why didn't East Asians colonize the Americas?

Why didn't East Asians colonize the Americas?

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

the Ming cut Zhan He's funding

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.

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.

Polynesians could do it. Spaniards could do it.

The winds

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.

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

The Pacific Ocean is big.

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.

>tfw to inteligent to not kill people

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

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.

Wait, isn't there evidence they had contact?

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

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

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Contact, not colonization.

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