Yeah, I got your puny little Strait of Hormuz geopolitics.
From Strange Maps, October 29, 2025:
“The Chinese Job”: Spain’s wild 1580s plan to conquer the world — via Beijing
The plan — conquer China and push west to attack the Ottomans — was peak imperial hubris, as the Spanish themselves eventually realized.
Circled in yellow: Spain’s European possessions (left), and the Spanish Philippines (right). The direction
of the arrow illustrates that conquering China was only the beginning; stabbing the Ottomans in the back
was the real endgame. (Credit: Nagihuin, CC0 1.0 – Ruland Kolen)
- La Empresa de China was an audacious 16th-century scheme to conquer Ming-dynasty China and make it part of a globe-spanning Habsburg Empire.
- The plan imagined a Spanish-Portuguese armada invading from the Philippines, seizing ports, marching on Beijing, and transforming China into a Christian, Spanish-led power stretching across Asia.
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