I fully understand your wanting buy cheap shares, and truely Taiwan is not thrid world country, though China is.
I think it's funny you're bashing your own country so bad

I've noticed this a few times now
Since this thread is offtopic rambling for the most part anyway, do you mind me asking what the things are you don't like about it? It's always good to hear from a direct source and not what we're fed by the media.