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Every so often someone asks me: “What’s your favorite country, other than your
own?” I’ve always had the same answer: Taiwan. “Taiwan? Why Taiwan?” people ask.
Very simple: Because Taiwan is a barren rock in a typhoon-laden sea with no natural
resources to live off of, yet it has the fourth-largest financial reserves in the world.
Because rather than digging in the ground and mining whatever comes up, Taiwan has
mined its 23 million people, their talent, energy and intelligence — men and women.
People in Taiwan are the luckiest in the world. They have no oil, no iron ore, no
forests, no diamonds, no gold, just a few small deposits of coal and natural gas — and
because of that they developed the policies and culture of honing their people’s diverse
skills, which turns out to be the most valuable and only truly renewable resource in the
world today.