In the Hong Kong Maritime Museum exhibit, “The World on Maps and Charts,”

In the Hong Kong Maritime Museum exhibit, “The World on Maps and Charts,” one of the slides shows the map Mateo Ricci produced for the Ming court in 1602. The image is accompanied by this note: “It demonstrated to the Chinese people the vastness of the world and the position of China on earth. Many of the Chinese scholars were deeply interested in Western maps and knowledge.”
However, East Asia already had a rich cartographic tradition. How does the museum’s choice of wording frame the relationship between European and Asian understandings of the world? What is implied in this statement about the transfer of knowledge between Europe and Asia, and why might it be a problem?