From the flagship Regent Taipei, Steven Pan surveys a world in motion — pandemic wounds healing, artificial intelligence reshaping cities, and capital flowing between Taiwan's semiconductor heartland and America's technology corridors. Formosa International Hotels, long a quiet giant of Taiwanese hospitality, is now reaching toward San Francisco with the patience of a company that learned, during its darkest hour, that loyalty and long-term thinking are themselves a form of strategy. The pursuit of U.S. luxury properties is not merely an acquisition story; it is a meditation on how trust, timi