This reminds me of the Avro Arrow - the beginning of the gutting of Canada's technology and innovation development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow
One day the US President met with the Canadian Prime Minister at the time. The next day the PM scrapped the program, ordered all schematics and documents of the aircraft be destroyed.
The something like 40,000 engineers mostly then got jobs in the US.