Dutch technology transfers and the case of a key machine: China, the U.S., and a Dutch manufacturer
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The Economist
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The article discusses how the Netherlands has historically been a source of significant technology transfers that shaped global power dynamics, from agricultural and financial innovations in the 17th century to shipbuilding techniques for Russia and nuclear weapons blueprints via A.Q. Khan. It then pivots to a contemporary case involving a Dutch manufacturer fighting U.S. claims about China potentially obtaining a critical machine, though the full details are cut off.
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In the 17th century their financial and farming innovations spread to Britain, laying the ground for the Industrial Revolution and the British Empire's expansion.
Peter the Great, a Russian tsar, studied Dutch shipbuilding techniques to build the navy that established Russia as a maritime power in the 18th century.
And in the 1970s a Pakistani scientist, A.Q. Khan, stole blueprints from a Dutch laboratory to launch his country's nuclear-weapons programme and seed similar efforts in North Korea, Iran and Li
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