Dutch manufacturer disputes US claims over China's acquisition of critical machine
The article discusses how the Netherlands has historically punched above its weight in technology transfers that shaped the modern world, citing examples from the 17th century through the 1970s. It then pivots to a current situation involving a Dutch manufacturer fighting to rebut American claims about China potentially obtaining a critical machine. The article is cut off but appears to be about technology transfer and geopolitical tensions around advanced machinery.
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The Dutch punch above their weight in technology transfers that shaped the modern world.
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.
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...
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