🇹🇼 Taiwan's National Capability. GINC's Emerging Assessment.
QUICK TAKE · AI Summary
- 🇹🇼 Taiwan's strengths are in Production & Innovation and Investment & Trade where it holds a Tier 2 position in capability.
- 🇹🇼 Taiwan ranks 18th globally across the nine capability domains, just behind the 🇬🇧 United Kingdom and just ahead of 🇦🇺 Australia.
- GINC's National Capability Assessments focus on capability quality, not quantity, advantaging smaller, high performing nations such as 🇹🇼 Taiwan that have developed distinct frontier advantages over time.
Figure 1. Taiwan's National Capability Relative to Global Frontier Nations
| Capability | ABBREV | 🇹🇼 Tier | Frontier Nations – T1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hard Capability | |||
| Critical Technology | CT | 🇹🇼 T6 | 🇺🇸 |
| Strategic Infrastructure | SI | 🇹🇼 T4 | 🇨🇭🇫🇮🇯🇵🇰🇷🇳🇱🇳🇴🇸🇬🇸🇪🇦🇪🇺🇸 |
| National Security | NS | 🇹🇼 T5 | 🇮🇱🇺🇸 |
| Soft Capability | |||
| Human Capital | HC | 🇹🇼 T5 | 🇨🇭🇪🇪🇮🇱🇸🇬🇺🇸 |
| Information Influence | II | 🇹🇼 T3 | 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇯🇵🇰🇷🇳🇱🇳🇴🇸🇬🇸🇪🇨🇭🇦🇪🇺🇸 |
| Governance Integrity | GI | 🇹🇼 T4 | 🇨🇭🇩🇰🇪🇪🇫🇮🇮🇱🇳🇴🇸🇬🇸🇪 |
| Economic Capability | |||
| Financial Strength | FS | 🇹🇼 T4 | 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇸🇬🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸 |
| Production & Innovation | PI | 🇹🇼 T2 | 🇨🇭🇮🇱🇰🇷🇸🇬🇸🇪🇺🇸 |
| Investment & Trade | IT | 🇹🇼 T2 | 🇨🇭🇪🇪🇮🇱🇰🇷🇸🇬🇺🇸 |
Figure X. Taiwan's Top 10 Capability Groups
| Rank | Capability Domain | Capability Group | Score | PERC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Investment & Trade | 🇹🇼 Export Sophistication | 16.7 | 98.6% |
| 4 | Production & Innovation | 🇹🇼 Intellectual Property & Knowledge Assets | 15.7 | 98.6% |
| 6 | Investment & Trade | 🇹🇼 Global Value Chain Role | 15.0 | 97.7% |
| 7 | Production & Innovation | 🇹🇼 Economic Output & Productivity | 15.7 | 97.2% |
| 8 | Production & Innovation | 🇹🇼 Research & Development | 15.7 | 96.7% |
| 8 | Production & Innovation | 🇹🇼 Technology Adoption & Diffusion | 15.0 | 96.7% |
| 10 | Information & Influence | 🇹🇼 National Identity & Social Cohesion | 14.7 | 95.8% |
| 11 | Production & Innovation | 🇹🇼 Output Complexity | 15.0 | 95.3% |
| 11 | Governance & Integrity | 🇹🇼 Integrity & Anti-Corruption | 14.3 | 95.3% |
| 12 | Governance & Integrity | 🇹🇼 Transparency & Accountability | 14.0 | 94.9% |
Figure X. Taiwan's Bottom 10 Capability Groups
| Rank | Capability Domain | Capability Group | Score | PERC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | Strategic Infrastructure | 🇹🇼 Comms Infrastructure | 13.3 | 80.4% |
| 44 | Information & Influence | 🇹🇼 Language & People-to-People Exchange | 12.3 | 79.9% |
| 46 | National Security | 🇹🇼 Land Power | 12.2 | 79.0% |
| 50 | Information & Influence | 🇹🇼 Diaspora & Global Communities | 11.7 | 77.1% |
| 50 | National Security | 🇹🇼 Maritime Power | 8.2 | 77.1% |
| 58 | Strategic Infrastructure | 🇹🇼 Energy Infrastructure | 12.0 | 73.4% |
| 60 | Strategic Infrastructure | 🇹🇼 Resource Infrastructure | 11.3 | 72.4% |
| 75 | Financial Strength | 🇹🇼 Global Financial Integration | 9.7 | 65.4% |
| 82 | National Security | 🇹🇼 Nuclear Capability | 2.7 | 62.1% |
| 85 | Information & Influence | 🇹🇼 Diplomatic & Global Networks | 10.7 | 60.7% |
