Alexander Hamilton oversaw an explicit program to steal technology from England. https://apnews.com/general-news-b40414d22f2248428ce11ff36b88...

I believe that is what is being referenced.

most of these case are european that steal from another european then who emigrated to the state in colonial days to found their own bussiness

I think parent was thinking of events like …

“he brought British textile technology to the United States, modifying it for American use. He memorized the textile factory machinery designs as an apprentice to a pioneer in the British industry before migrating to the U.S. at the age of 21.”

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater

in defence of US, US didn't steal anything lol

the European themselves bringing this industry to the US

that's what western companies did with china too

right now trying to steal back semi manufacturing from taiwan through tariffs and trade restrictions

in case of TSMC, having 80% most advance chip manufacturing concentrated in 1 small island for an entire world is clearly problematic (corona teach us a lot), no matter how you look at this

That’s not really the main technology, just the actual manufacturing. The valuable IP is EUV which came out of a US research project.