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Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2001
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- Voc strategies in the far east (1605-1640) Ernst Veen Van Historia At the time that the VOC entered the European pepper andspice market, the Portuguese Carreira da India was just recoveringfrom its serious set-back of the 1590s, whereas the overlandsupplies via Alexandria were still able to compete in theMediterranean. As a result, the dividends they received on theirinvestments remained far below the expectations of the VOCshareholders. Through an agreement with the English EIC and byoffering favorable payment conditions in the Levant the directorswere able to ward off part of the competition in Europe, but thePortuguese and Dutch supplies together still exceeded the quantitiesthat the markets could bear.In Asia, VOC attempts to obtain a monopoly on the spicetrade from the Moluccas failed until the late 1660s. The idea tooust the Spaniards from their fortresses in the Moluccas failed aswell but led to annually repeated blockades of the Philippines. Asa strategy, privateering against Portuguese and Chinese vesselsbecame successful in that the profits this produced were sufficientto cover more than half the operating costs in Asia, but not thecapital investments in ships, fortresses and merchandise. The nextidea was to force the diversion of the entire Chinese trade with thePhilippines to Batavia or Taiwan and thereby obtain access to theChinese silk and the China-Japan trade. The aggressive attempts ofthe Dutch produced only scant quantities of silk until in 1633 theywere able to come to an agreement with the Chinese merchantpirateChen Chih-Lung. This finally opened the door to theJapanese supplies of silver into the Asian trading system. As aresult, the VOC transfers of silver from Europe to Asia could besubstantially reduced. 2001 artículo científico 0874-8438 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36100306 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=361 Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies application/pdf Universidade Nova de Lisboa Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies (Portugal) Num.3