How about a parade for Zheng He Day in US?

As the US took a holiday yesterday to observe Columbus Day, a retired British submarine commander and now amateur historian presses on to prove a controversial thesis: That Chinese fleets dispatched "to proceed to the ends of the earth" by a 15th century admiral reached America 70 years before Christopher Columbus.

After 15 years of research, Gavin Menzies published his best-selling book 1421 to considerable fanfare in 2001, stirring plenty of doubt. Besides claiming that Chinese ships beat the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria to the New World, Menzies asserts that the same "treasure fleets" under Admiral Zheng He sailed around the world a century before Magellan and dropped settlers in Australia 350 years before Cook.

Since the book's first publication, evidence to support these claims has mounted - and Menzies has compiled that evidence on his website, www.gavinmenzies.net, hoping to stimulate discussion on the Chinese contribution to global history in the 15th century.