
As His Holiness the Dalai Lama has said, under the greatest adversity there is the greatest potential to do good, not just for oneself but with others. Somewhat fortunately and unfortunately, every other year Taiwan faces an existential crisis. During Sunflower, it was the sudden passing of a trade deal with Beijing that would have opened our telecom, publishing, and cybersecurity sectors to Beijing investors. We overcame that. Then came the crisis of online rage, or the infodemic. Two years after that, literally the pandemic, COVID-19. After that, synthetic intimacy and deepfake fraud.