I believe Menzies' argument that Zheng He's fleet made it to North America because he explains it properly through evidence. Menzies' uses various old maps and sources from 1421 to evaluate where Zheng He's fleets went and why. He's able to come to a conclusion that Zheng He came from under South Africa and was gradually dragged by the wind currents northwest. From there, Menzies proclaimed that Zheng He's fleet split into two factions. One faction went north and the other went south. For example, one of Menzies' evidences is that the island of Bimini has a landscape called the "shark mountains" and contains the wrecks of chinese junks (ships). Menzies uses not only tools and sources to investigate into this argument, but he also experiences these places himself by going to them.
But if you go back and listen to what he says, Menzies offers no tangible proof that the fleet made it past the Cape of Good Hope. Nor is there tangible, empirical proof that any Chinese ship made it here; each statement is a "may" "possibly" "might have" statement...
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