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Taiwan’s Got Talent: Why Taipei Needs to Capitalize on its Assets

Digitization and new technologies like machine learning are changing the future of work and service delivery.

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By Evan A. Feigenbaum and Jeremy Smith
Published on Apr 28, 2020
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Digitization and new technologies like machine learning are changing the future of work and service delivery. But they will also mean more competition and raise the bar for smaller economies that cannot match the ability of behemoths like the United States, China, and Japan to simply develop and deploy new hardware to scale.

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Evan A. Feigenbaum

Vice President for Studies

Evan A. Feigenbaum is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees work at its offices in Washington, New Delhi, and Singapore on a dynamic region encompassing both East Asia and South Asia. He served twice as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and advised two Secretaries of State and a former Treasury Secretary on Asia.

Jeremy Smith

Former James C. Gaither Junior Fellow, Asia Program

Jeremy Smith was a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow with the Asia Program.

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Vice President for Studies
Evan A. Feigenbaum
Jeremy Smith
Former James C. Gaither Junior Fellow, Asia Program
Political ReformForeign Policy

Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

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