申論題

     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.