Democracy, Technology, and Geopolitics: Taiwan's Innovation and Impact

Mark Hsieh is a scientist with broad interests and the owner of Synmax fine chemicals, a Taiwanese company that produces intermediaries for pharma and food industry

In this episode we talk about the new cold war and how to make a country better

I really enjoyed talking to Mark and I hope you will enjoy the conversation too.

Key take aways

1. The world is getting more considered, respectful and more diverse. We are embracing difference. But the world is not distilling everything and is getting more chaotic.
2. The same people that signed to reduce CO2 emissions in a COP conference, the day after, sign for more deals and trades that increase emissions.
3. We are looking for a new paradigm to do things: democracy is good, but why we are going back to cold war?
4. Taiwan has been an electronic power house for the last 25 years. It is not just semiconductor, it's everything electronics: memory, server, circuit boards
5. IN the 1970, Taiwan was a blooming low-tech economy. But group of technocrats was thinking every morning during breakfast: how to make this country better? They brought their scientists working abroad back home.
6. TSMC is a company with extraordinary vision, putting billions of dollars in research to find the next chip. Diaspora of TSMC became entrepreneurs and feed back TSMC.

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