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Nathaniel Taplin

Nathaniel Taplin is a Taipei-based journalist who has worked in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan for over 15 years. From 2017 to 2024 he was the main China columnist for The Wall Street Journal’s economic commentary section, Heard on the Street. Prior to that he was a correspondent in Shanghai and an economics analyst in Beijing. 

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Nathaniel Taplin is a Taipei-based journalist who has worked in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan for over 15 years. From 2017 to 2024 he was the main China columnist for The Wall Street Journal’s economic commentary section, Heard on the Street. Prior to that he was a correspondent in Shanghai and an economics analyst in Beijing. @nate_taplin

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Articles

Taiwan’s Achilles’ Heel

Taiwan is almost entirely dependent on imported fossil fuels for its power supply — a critical weakness in the event of a Chinese blockade. But the very democratic forces on the island that China would be seeking to destroy through forced unification are also standing...