In contrast, Taiwan is still showing a nasty deficit in knowledge trade, with money going out twice as fast as it is coming in. The impressive American model would certainly be difficult to apply to the small "shallow" economy in Taiwan.
對照之下，截至目前，台灣的「技術貿易」仍呈現慘烈的逆差，輸入輸出的金額是二十比一，磅礡華麗的美國模式，顯然難以套用在台灣這樣的小型淺碟式的經濟體身上。