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Samuel Jay Hawley claims the Japanese were so powerful, but the Japanese Tokugawa Shogunate asked the Dutch East India Company for help with a fleet to ferry and guard their troops to attack the Spanish Philippines, while the Chinese had their own fleet and defeated the Dutch East India Company and Portuguese several times while Japan defeated them zero times.
Even in 1857 Chinese Cantonese pirates led by Apak defeated Portuguese pirates from Macau in the Ningpo aka Ningbo incident.
