Nick Gordon here. Sherman Lin, chair of the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation, took a little while to get going when I talked to him on a Zoom call over the summer. But he got animated when I asked him what makes Taiwan’s stock market different from, say, exchanges in Singapore and Hong Kong.
“The best way to understand Taiwan is as a technology island,” he said, with an excited smile, before rattling off cities all along Taiwan’s western coast. “We’re like an industrial park…Technology is really in our DNA.”
