[Analytics] How Taiwan beat China to be Asia's top-performing economy

[Analytics] How Taiwan beat China to be Asia's top-performing economy The logo of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation. [Photo/Sipa]. The world gasped in amazement at China's impressive 6% to 11% annual GDP growth over the past decade as the People's Republic became a truly global powerhouse. Last year, however, the coronavirus pandemic wrecked that incredible trajectory, leading to China's slowest expansion since 1976 at just 2.3%. Nik Martin specially for the DW . Instead, the region's top-performing economy was Taiwan, the contentious territory that China sees as its own, which saw economic output expand by 3.11%. The island, which was widely…