Hermann Van Peron continued his analysis in The Australian Times by pointing out that the Netherlands can be a super economic power, but the German Empire is difficult to achieve.

He believes that since December 1861, observers from the German Empire and Britain and other neighboring powers in the Dutch territories in Europe have been predicting week by week that the Netherlands will never be able to return to the prosperity of sea coachmen in the 17th and 18th centuries.

You must know that at that time, the Netherlands' tulips created a financial capital and its maritime transportation ranked first in the world. The country was destroyed by Napoleon I at the end of the 18th century. The Netherlands, which was re-established in 1815, will eventually live as a second-rate power.

Why do you think so?

The reason is naturally that the European territory of the Netherlands is only over 4,000 square kilometers, plus the 2,600 square kilometers of the Principality of Luxembourg, it is about 50,000 square kilometers.

The area is even just one-tenth of the German Empire, one-sixth of the British Isles, and one-eleventh of the French Empire.

Not even one-sixteenth of the 830,000 square kilometers of the United Kingdom of Sweden-Norway.

Surrounded by these four major countries, the potential of the Netherlands will naturally not be optimistic.

As the Kingdom of Prussia emerged in the east of the Netherlands as one of the Holy Four Kingdoms, the Netherlands could not compare with the German Empire. The competition between the two countries was not optimistic from the beginning.

Even throughout the 1860s when His Majesty William IV came to power, the Netherlands only developed a plastic product business under his leadership, igniting the Netherlands' global trade.

But it’s just a single product.

And they don’t dare to go too far to capture market share in the UK, Germany, or even other countries.

If the markets of the four countries were squeezed by the Netherlands, it would turn into political pressure and pour into the European Dutch government, which at that time was still asking to move its capital to the Far East.

France even held joint military exercises with Belgium in the south of the Netherlands to put pressure on the Dutch.

The German Empire also conducted exercises on the eastern border of the Netherlands.

The British were even more ruthless and often made direct demonstrations against the Netherlands at sea.

Therefore, this further proves that it is difficult for the Netherlands to rise.

This was true even with the Dutch East Indies and American colonies.

Unfortunately, the Netherlands finally took the wrong approach and moved its capital directly to the Far East, completely breaking away from the encirclement of Britain, France and Germany. It also formed an alliance with Sweden and Denmark to form the Nordic Alliance, and maintained historical friendship with the Russian Empire to check and balance Britain and Germany. In the end, the Netherlands

There is a sea in the Far East. In just twelve years after moving its capital to Melbourne, it has become the world's largest economic power. It also has the world's most strategically advantageous surrounding environment.

One country actually occupies the entire continent (Australia). Not to mention, the surrounding islands are all Dutch, and they are all defending the Australian continent.

What the Netherlands doesn't know yet is that in addition to this protective layer, the Netherlands has also established an alliance system in surrounding countries.

All the Pacific side of the Americas were allies of the Netherlands, as was the Qing Dynasty in Asia, Goryeo, and Spain, the suzerainty of the Philippines, was also an ally of the Netherlands.

Even the Second French Empire, which now occupies North and South Vietnam, is currently easing relations with the Netherlands.

Counting the surrounding areas, only Britain, which occupies South Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Malaya, is left.

Therefore, the Netherlands only faced off because it was willing to threaten the Netherlands with Britain in a strategic sense.

On the other hand, some things have happened in Germany recently, such as the German Empire's strict general rule over its member states, restrictions on words and deeds opposed to Berlin's rule, the rise of factions within Germany, and the Bismarck government's excessive control of parliament, which has limited the effective control of the country.

Healthy competition and the negative impact of clumsy decisions seem to support this view.

The Dutch Federal Reserve Bank recently issued a report highlighting tax cuts and economic liberalization in the Netherlands, and also emphasized a historical fact: since the beginning of the steam revolution, every time economic progress has been made, that is, core productivity has continued to grow.

, are all related to human capital investment and the increase in female labor force participation rate.

Hermann Van Peron pointed out the problem directly: “None of the German Imperial universities are among the top five in the world, and less than 5 German universities are among the top 50 universities in the world, while the Netherlands has 16 and the UK has 8.

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He pointed out that the Netherlands is also better prepared for future opportunities. 16 Dutch universities are among the top 50 in the world, accounting for almost one-third of the list.

Among them, the University of Sydney occupies the first place, the University of Melbourne occupies the second place, and the fifth place is the Australian National University in the Netherlands.

The famous University of Cambridge and Oxford University in the UK have dropped to third and fourth place.

The University of Sydney is regarded as the top university in the world of finance.

Melbourne is the most coveted political and management university in the world.

The Australian National University has a global reputation for science.

At the same time, 13 others said that local universities are almost competing with top universities in other countries around the world for position.

In contrast, no university in the German Empire ranks among the top five, and even among the top ten is only Humboldt University Berlin.

Universities in other countries can only compete with the second- and third-rate universities in the Netherlands. It has to be said that the German Empire lags far behind in terms of manpower quality when facing the Netherlands.

"When I visited Europe in the name of the President of the University of Sydney three months ago, I went to Berlin and talked with the President of the University of Berlin, Alexander von Humboldt. He revealed to me that the current German education system lacks universities in other countries.

Just teach them in a swarm, instead of deploying future industries early and laying out advanced technological foundations like the Netherlands.

He lamented that Germany was ten years behind the Netherlands in education.

I don’t know if this is true, but I know that Germany’s technology is indeed more than ten years behind the Netherlands.”

"This Berlin University student was full of praise for Dutch university education when he was chatting with me."

Hermann Van Peron only said in the Australian Times: "Germany is more like an economic miracle waiting to happen than the Netherlands today. If the miracle comes true, the core figure will be the next generation of high-level changes in Germany rather than the current German Empire.

Now the iron triangle formed by William I, Bismarck, Moltke, and Rohn."

"In this regard, Alexander von Humboldt, who was chatting with me at the time, agreed with my point of view."

Hermann Van Peron finally said: "If Germany wants to become the next economic superpower like the Netherlands, it should be familiar with the Dutch economic operation rules.

Even now that the country has become more market-oriented, the Netherlands has still made substantial investments in its citizens, raising education and food and clothing standards to the highest level required for an internationally competitive labor force, even surpassing the UK by a long way.

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The per capita income is nearly twice that of Germany.

In the 1881 Human Capital Index of the Dutch Federal Reserve Bank, which measures the education and subsistence achievements of various countries on a scale of 0 to 1, the German Empire only had 0.61, just reaching the subsistence stage, and even lower than the Dutch allies Denmark and Greece, the two European per capita incomes.

China; the Netherlands has a perfect score of 1 point, and the UK has a score of 8.5, which is one-sixth less than the Netherlands' annual input.
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