Future Taiwan

Taiwan has passed a new law abolishing the amusement tax on movie tickets and most live performances, including concerts and theater, in a move designed to boost cultural participation and make entertainment more affordable. The reform removes a previously uneven tax system that placed higher burdens on some events, particularly cinemas, while still allowing limited taxation on venues like dance halls and golf facilities. Overall, the policy aims to stimulate demand, support the arts sector, and strengthen Taiwan’s broader “concert economy” by lowering costs for audiences.

Taiwan's recycling rate is 55%.
The EU average is 47%. The US is at 32%.
The secret? A garbage truck that plays Für Elise.
Every evening, the truck comes to your street. You hear the music, you grab your sorted bags, you go downstairs and hand them over in person. No communal bins rotting on the pavement. No anonymous dumping. Just a system that people actually follow.
Here's the part that doesn't make sense to Australian ears: there are almost no public bins on the street either. No bin, no dumping, no mess. Instead of managing waste after it's been abandoned, Taiwan removed the abandonment option entirely.
A country of 23 million people. One melody. And cleaner streets than most cities twice its wealth. ♻️🎵

Israel is Standing up for Taiwan 🇹🇼

Taiwan stood by us since Oct. 7, now It’s our turn:
72 Knesset members from across Israel’s political spectrum condemn Taiwan’s exclusion from international forums, urging its inclusion in organizations like the WHO and ICAO.

Nvidia recently crossed the 4 trillion usd market cap mark (roughly the size of the entire Nikkei 225). But did you know the deep routes it shares between Israel and Taiwan?

🇹🇼 TAIWAN: Nvidia’s Silicon Backbone

Taiwan powers Nvidia’s hardware empire.

TSMC makes nearly all of Nvidia’s advanced chips. Every AI server, data center, and GPU runs through Taiwan.

Nvidia has locked in full capacity at Wistron’s new AI server factory in Zhubei through 2026.

Its new Asia-Pacific HQ, “Nvidia Constellation,” opens in 2025 in Taipei’s Beitou-Shilin Tech Park, driving AI across healthcare, education, and industry.

Together with Foxconn, Nvidia is launching Taiwan’s first AI supercomputing hub, making Taiwan the AI infrastructure capital of Asia.

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🇮🇱 ISRAEL: Nvidia’s AI Brain

Israel drives Nvidia’s R&D and innovation.

Since acquiring Mellanox in 2020, Israel has become Nvidia’s largest R&D base outside the U.S., with over 5,000 engineers.

Nvidia is building a major tech campus in northern Israel and a $500M AI research lab—one of the most powerful in the country.

One in every four new Nvidia jobs is created in Israel.

After the U.S., Israel has the second-largest Nvidia workforce in the world.

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Taiwan builds it. Israel thinks it.
Together, they form the foundation of Nvidia’s $4 trillion AI dominance.

The world's largest Tuned Mass Damper of Taipei 101.
660 Metric tons of a swinging ball

Essentially acting as a giant pendulum, the enormous steel sphere moves slightly back and forth to counter any motion of the building itself. It is an engineering marvel meant to limit the vibrations of the 1,667-foot tall building.

read more about it in link in first comment.

Taiwan has No. 1 fastest internet in world
5 GB HD movie in Taiwan only takes 4 minutes 27 seconds to download, while in China wait is 53 minutes 55 seconds.

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Australia's largest companies are banks, supermarkets, a mining Co and a toll road.
Taiwan's largest companies manufacture semiconductors, electronics and cars.
One is scalping its hostage citizens with price gouging.
While the other's innovation makes it competitive on world stage.

Taiwan is a global leader in recycling, it's a shame so few seem to know it:

By Mark Stocker

A concerted effort by the government and private enterprises to market Taiwan's green achievements abroad would not only benefit the nation's image, it would also create more business opportunities for Taiwan's brands, products and services.
When one is asked to identify the nations that lead the world in the greening of their economies, countries such as Germany tend to spring to mind for most of us. In fact, it is generally the nations of Western Europe and Scandinavia that are recognized as de facto leaders in recycling, sustainability, and green industry. Unbeknownst to many, however, Taiwan has quietly surpassed a majority of these countries in its rates of recycling, putting the island nation in the top three of most global benchmarks.
You might be skeptical, and if you are I don't blame you. For all that Taiwan is achieving in the greening of its economy, the island does not have much of a reputation for green leadership. The truth is that many still associate Taiwan with a dirty past. A time when economic performance took precedent over environmental protection. Unfortunately for Taiwan, the nation's reputation remains stuck in this past, due in part to Taiwan's lack of assertiveness in marketing its recent achievements.
Taiwan is a world leader in recycling. It's time for more people to know it.
Did you know? Taiwan has the world's second highest effective recycling rate, second only to Germany. Taiwan citizens produce on average 0.4kg of waste per day, down from 1.14kg two decades ago, and far below today's global average of 1.2kg per person. Taiwan has reduced the amount of waste entering land-fills to less than 2% of total generated waste, converting former landfill sites into parks and community centers. Taiwanese industry, meanwhile, recycles an impressive 80% of its own industrial waste and the island now boasts more than 2,000 registered recycling companies, up from fewer than 100 a decade ago.
Taiwan has gone from laggard to leader in the span of a decade. Unfortunately, Taiwan's reputation for leadership in recycling has not kept pace. While the average citizen of Taiwan will cite Germany as the standard-bearer of recycling, there are, despite the recent news coverage, few Germans who would say the same of Taiwan. And, in spite of the fact that all of us in Taiwan have participated in the transformation over the last decade, too few of us here fully appreciate the significance of these achievements, or recognize the opportunity for Taiwan to lead the world into the next era of recycling.
The situation today reflects many of the same challenges Taiwan has been facing for decades. Whilst the nation has highly innovative companies, a talented workforce, and world-class process engineering, the country's capabilities continue to remain little known to those outside of Taiwan. A lack of international awareness of Taiwan's leadership in recycling would not only be a shame, it would be a missed opportunity for Taiwan's green technology and service providers to lead the way in what is predicted to become a multi-trillion USD market by 2020.
Taiwan must market itself as a global steward of green
Now is not the time to be humble. If Taiwan wishes to win any significant part of the green technology and environmental services market, the country will need to be known by citizens all over the world as a global steward of green and sustainable practices. To raise Taiwan's profile, the government should introduce a decade-long, global public relations campaign designed to raise awareness for both national and corporate-level achievements in recycling and sustainable practices. Recent news coverage like that in the Wall Street Journal is a step in the right direction, but much more will be needed if Taiwan desires to attain Germany's reputation.
At the same time, Taiwanese corporations involved in all aspects of the green economy must themselves be more proactive in building exposure for their services and capabilities in overseas markets. Stories such as Far Eastern New Century's involvement in the development of the Adidas shoe made from recycled ocean waste, which is known only here in Taiwan, must become common knowledge to people around the world.
With Taiwan's remarkable recycling transformation well under way, we are in an ideal position to move ahead of other nations with the implementation of ever more comprehensive management policies and with trials of new and advanced technologies. Initiatives put in place by our current government have the potential to turn Taiwan into the world's greenest economy within the next decade. We should take pride in what has been achieved and what will be achieved in the coming years. We must also have the conviction to ensure the world knows it too.

Israel in Taipei Great story brought to light

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Once again Taiwan shows solidarity to Israel. Illuminating Taipei 101 in blue and white.