Taiwan's economy has been hit hard

Taiwan's economy is racing downwards, take a look at the graph HERE in the economist.
Reason is, Taiwan basically exports computers and electronic gadgets and that's exactly what people don't buy right now. Even companies discover their 2005 PCs and severs still work. Especially if they keep on using XP for the PCs and Notebooks and use Linux for the servers.

Some predict a great and long depression for Taiwan and not just a recession, see HERE.

So, quickly buy that new Notebook with Vista and 4 GB RAM and a 250 GB HDD, come on, Taiwan needs you!

UPDATE: only kidding.