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My incipient TL involves Qing China constructing a large European-style fleet (this has Chinese precedent in the 1630s) and conquering the Dutch East India Company's Southeast Asian territories during the War of the Spanish Succession in response to the Dutch harboring and patronizing large numbers of Ming loyalists. Since the English East India Company had an unofficial truce even with the French East India Company during the war, it seems likely that the Dutch in Asia would have no real support from its European allies. After taking Melaka and Batavia, the Qing do not pursue the Dutch into Ceylon and India.

But I don't know much about the VOC in the Netherlands itself. The VOC died slowly after the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and this would be even more catastrophic. And since the Republic still has the French to deal with in Europe, would I be correct to say that the VOC soon goes bankrupt and the Dutch dissolve the Company?

If so, what happens then? Will the Dutch state keep the VOC's remaining holdings in southern India and Sri Lanka?
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