Great Sunday (or Monday) read from Edward White  at The  Financial Times  about Taiwan (free registration gets you access to a couple of sample articles like this one). (Hat tip to Nicholas V. Chen  for spotting this one). "Rapid industrialisation and economic growth — the Taiwan Economic Miracle, or Taiwan Qíjì — has transformed the island. Despite being the size of the Netherlands, with meagre natural resources and languishing in diplomatic isolation as the rest of the world pursued relations with Beijing, in the past 50 years exports surged from less than $1bn annually to the same figure on a daily basis and GDP per capita grew from $320 to nearly $25,000 today. Equally remarkable, and probably even less likely, Taiwan has peacefully transitioned from an authoritarian one-party state to a young democracy with a woman, Tsai Ing-wen, now the fourth president since the first elections were held in 1996." …see more