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The [[Sui dynasty|Sui]] (581–618) and [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] (618–907) dynasties of China were involved in several naval affairs over the triple set of polities ruling medieval [[Korea]] ([[Three Kingdoms of Korea]]), along with engaging naval bombardments on the peninsula from [[Asuka period]] [[Yamato period|Yamato]] Kingdom (Japan).
The Tang dynasty aided the Korean kingdom of [[Silla]] (see also [[Unified Silla]]) and expelled the Korean kingdom of [[Baekje]]
From the [[Axumite]] Kingdom in modern-day [[Ethiopia]], the [[Arab]] traveller [[Sa'd ibn Abi-Waqqas]] sailed from there to Tang China during the reign of [[Emperor Gaozong of Tang|Emperor Gaozong]]. Two decades later, he returned with a copy of the [[Quran]], establishing the first Islamic [[mosque]] in China, the Mosque of Remembrance in [[Guangzhou]]. A rising rivalry followed between the Arabs and Chinese for control of trade in the Indian Ocean. In his book ''Cultural Flow Between China and the Outside World'', Shen Fuwei notes that maritime Chinese merchants in the 9th century were landing regularly at Sufala in East Africa to cut out Arab middle-men traders.<ref name="shen">Shen, 155</ref>
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