The political understanding of this issue is low in much of the world because the technology especially in much of the countries where it is used has been introduced to people generally in the last 2/3 of their life. Which makes the work of ~1980 Taiwanese leadership so impressive realising that the political importance of this stuff could be great enough in the future to act as a guarantee of security from the CCP, and greatly and successfuly embracing it to that end.
The political understanding of this issue is low in much of the world because the technology especially in much of the countries where it is used has been introduced to people generally in the last 2/3 of their life. Which makes the work of ~1980 Taiwanese leadership so impressive realising that the political importance of this stuff could be great enough in the future to act as a guarantee of security from the CCP, and greatly and successfuly embracing it to that end.