But after the global political and economic situation loosened, the countries of Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America all started to walk along the old road that Taiwan had taken. Taiwan's labor, meanwhile, became much more expensive, and it lost that advantage.
然而全球政經情勢解凍後，東南亞、東歐、拉丁美洲……，許多國家走的都是台灣以前的老路，台灣卻工資飛漲、優勢不再。