The impact is comprehensive because Taiwanese foreign trade operators—whether manufacturers, traders, or distributors—face the same global buyers. Once buyers grow accustomed to ultra-low quotes from direct China sourcing, their perception of "reasonable pricing" gets reanchored. Explaining why the same specification costs thirty percent more becomes far more difficult.
Beyond that, on the distribution side, if Taiwanese traders represent products already being sold directly by numerous Chinese manufacturers on global e-commerce platforms, the middle value of the distribution channel becomes hard to maintain. On the manufacturing side, if Taiwanese manufacturers also adopt this "rapid replication and aggressive price-cutting" approach, it only accelerates the erosion of their own profit margins—in this race, Taiwan's labor and land costs don't offer competitive advantage.
The article's warnings apply equally to Taiwanese operators: don't fight battles you can't win. Invest resources where buyers have genuine needs and those needs can't be easily replicated or substituted by mass-market alternatives.