Taiwan’s success is also China’s. No one knows for sure how much of China’s exports in information and communications hardware are made in Taiwanese-owned factories, but the estimates run from 40% to 80%. As many as 1 million Taiwanese live and work on the mainland…
Impressive stuff. Yet for many people around the world, Taiwan evokes only one thing: the standoff between the People’s Republic of China, which considers the thriving democracy as just one of its provinces, and Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, who has made little secret of his dream of one day declaring Taiwan independent.
See also “China’s New Taiwan Tack” and “Stan Shih on Taiwan and China” from the same issue of Business Week.
