Nick Gordon here. Sherman Lin, chair of the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation, took a little while to get going when I talked to him on a Zoom call over the summer. But he got animated when I asked him what makes Taiwan’s stock market different from, say, exchanges in Singapore and Hong Kong. “The best way to understand Taiwan is as a technology island,” he said, with an excited smile, before rattling off cities all along Taiwan’s western coast. “We’re like an industrial park…Technology is really in our DNA.” Lin should be having a good year: Taiwan became the world’s…