I feel the current descendants of the former territories of the VOC ( Dutch East India Company) would like to make a factual challenge to the above statement. Not that I could speak for them. (Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, South Africa, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Taiwan, Japan, Bangladesh, Iran, Yemen, Oman, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Mozambique, Madagascar, Saint Helena)
I feel the current descendants of the former territories of the VOC ( Dutch East India Company) would like to make a factual challenge to the above statement. Not that I could speak for them. (Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, South Africa, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Taiwan, Japan, Bangladesh, Iran, Yemen, Oman, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Mozambique, Madagascar, Saint Helena)