The Dutch East India Company
In Our Time: History
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What's the China of the East?
The east india company had with a finger nail on india for my long time. And japan kept them out of japan. They built them a little island, you could say that you couldn't come into japan at all. But china was the big, excuse me, ch China was the big one. That was the big gold and china, i love the disdain of china. We had nothing they wanted at all except gold and silver,. If they had a mind to take it that afternoon. So there was this big thing there that was part of the part of the equation. How did it fit in? Can't be as crudely as i said.
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