Criticisms of plans by the Executive Yuan to set up science parks in Chiayi and Pingtung reflect longstanding issues regarding development in Taiwan...
Last month, Taiwan's Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics announced that it expected the Taiwanese economy to grow by about 1.6% in 2020, as measured by GDP. This was a small downward revision of Taiwan's growth metric, from slightly over 1.6%, but this still reflects strong growth in the Taiwanese economy...
The recent “499 Chaos” ultimately proves no laughing matter given that it has its roots in the poor salaries faced by Taiwanese and the dominance of major Taiwanese industries by a small number of powerful companies...
Claims by the Executive Yuan last month that it intends to realize Taiwan’s first unicorn company in the next two years would simply another case in point in which Taiwan desperately chases after what it perceives to be “international trends”, but has considered little of what that would mean, nor has taken the concrete steps to realize its claimed aspirations...
