Energy is Taiwan’s greatest vulnerability if China invades.

This video discusses Taiwan's national security Achilles' heel: Energy. The island country imports 97% of its total energy supply, which leaves it extremely vulnerable in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, or even a partial maritime blockade (a scenario that looks increasingly likely after the PLA's "practice run" blockades of August 2022 and May 2024.
Other topics include:
* Taiwan's precarious energy infrastructure in the face of growing power demands, especially in its semiconductor industry, which consumes an enormous amount of energy;
* Taiwan's over-reliance on LNG (liquified natural gas); Taiwan's limited progress in renewal energy sources;
* How nuclear power became a polarized fault line in Taiwanese politics many decades ago, and how it has complicated Taiwan's shifting energy policies;
* What the new DPP president Lai Ching-Te has said about nuclear energy and what his administration may do about it.