Taichung

Yeah, I think I'm glad you brought up coal because coal, it's interesting.

I mean, the coal in Taichung, which is the middle of Taiwan, I think if I'm not wrong, it's the second largest coal plant in the world.

And so it is Taiwan is dependent on coal.

um but at the end of the day it's there's of course it's a political discussion if you know do we want uh clean energy or do we do we want to continue to to burn coal and that and so like like in many other countries there has been uh you know decommissioning of coal plants And that has happened in Taiwan too, although the one in Taichung has grown.

And then, so there is, it's a huge coal plant.

I don't know that it's months.

I will definitely question that.

But the coal plant in Taichung is definitely very big.

Other gay venues have also faced scrutiny.

In April, a gay bathhouse in the central city of Taichung closed after a police raid over suspected public decency offenses and subsequent inspections.

In a Facebook statement announcing the closure, its owner accused police of discriminatory treatment.

A gay gym in Taipei, which closed in 2021, had reportedly been inspected 186 times before.

And I think as a founder for Anchor, choosing which industries to focus on naturally, I basically would be attracted to industries Taiwan that, you know, there's something that we can offer for the world.

And then so naturally, I think being in Taiwan, taking the high speed rail, like less than an hour, I could be in Taichung and Changhua and be at the headquarters of so many incredible bicycle companies offering products and so on and so forth for the world.

That definitely gave me some advantage.

in terms of building the understanding and trust and relationship with quite a lot of key stakeholders in the industry.

at your front door makes a ton of sense so tell me now i guess then about what you're seeing in why you know i'd like can you just give me a very quick and dirty recap of the taiwan uh cycling business um and how things are going maybe just like a short short recap of how the taiwan cycling business grew in the last 50 years and then what's happening now from your vantage point

Sure.

So as I quickly mentioned, I think Taiwan is known to have this cluster of bicycle manufacturers, essentially hundreds of them centered around Taichung and Changhua, which is around the central part of Taiwan.

And traditionally, especially about like 20 years ago, a little bit more than 20 years ago, when there was this A-team in Taiwan, I think quite a few key stakeholders decided to focus on high-end, especially carbon manufacturing.

Now to defence.

Prosecutors in Taichung have detained the founder of Align, a Taichung-based drone and remote control helicopter maker, along with his wife, on suspicion of delivering military training drones containing Chinese-made chips to the army.

The chips, bearing CN markings, were discovered during acceptance inspections, and investigators found at least two procurement contracts worth more than 8 million new Taiwan dollars that used Chinese chips assembled by the company.

The founder, Tu Tarsen, whose T-Rex line once held more than 70% of the global remote control helicopter market, and his wife were detained under the National Security Act and fraud charges.

The company bought specified technology, designs, and know-how for automated optical inspection machines used in COOS packaging.

The seller was Junlong Machine Industrial Co. Ltd., based in Taichung, Taiwan.

Nightfood plans to license the technology exclusively to TechForce Advanced Manufacturing Inc., a Nevada subsidiary formed to build and sell semiconductor automation and inspection systems.

Its initial focus is wafer sorter and AOI production for wafer-based and COOS-related packaging.