Editing Southeast Asia (section)

====Chinese====
{{See also|List of tributaries of Imperial China|Bamboo network|Chinese Empire}}

From 111 BC to 938 AD, northern Vietnam was under Chinese rule. Vietnam was successfully governed by a series of Chinese dynasties including the [[Han dynasty|Han]], [[Eastern Han]], [[Eastern Wu]], [[Cao Wei]]<!-- After Cao Wei annexe Shu Han, Lu Xing 呂興 kill prefect and surrender Jiaozhi to Cao Wei -->, [[Jin dynasty (266–420)|Jin]], [[Liu Song]], [[Southern Qi]], [[Liang dynasty|Liang]], [[Sui dynasty|Sui]], [[Tang dynasty|Tang]], and [[Southern Han]].
Records from Magellan's voyage show that [[Brunei]] possessed more [[cannon]] than European ships, so the Chinese must have been trading with them.<ref name="Bergreen.L_Magellan" />

Malaysian legend has it that a Chinese Ming emperor sent a princess, [[Hang Li Po]], to Malacca, with a retinue of 500, to marry [[Mansur Shah of Malacca|Sultan Mansur Shah]] after the emperor was impressed by the wisdom of the sultan. [[Hang Li Poh's Well]] (constructed 1459) is now a tourist attraction there, as is [[Bukit Cina]], where her retinue settled.

The strategic value of the [[Strait of Malacca]], which was controlled by [[Sultanate of Malacca]] in the 15th and early 16th century, did not go unnoticed by Portuguese writer [[Tomé Pires]], who wrote in the ''Suma Oriental'': "Whoever is lord of Malacca has his hand on the throat of [[Venice]]."<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H4QYAQAAMAAJ |title=The Suma oriental of Tomé Pires: an account of the East, from the Red Sea to Japan, written in Malacca and India in 1512-1515, and the book of Francisco Rodrigues, rutter of a voyage in the Red Sea, nautical rules, almanack and maps, written and drawn in the East before 1515 |date=1944 |publisher=The Hakluyt Society |location=London |pages=287 |language=en |lccn=47018369 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716145456/https://books.google.com.ph/books/about/The_Suma_Oriental_of_Tome_Pires.html?id=H4QYAQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y |archive-date=16 July 2024 |access-date=16 July 2024 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> (Venice was a major European trading partner, and goods were transported there via the Straight.)