513 and 517 Nationwide Blackouts in 2021: Piercing the DPP's 'No Power Shortage' Political Lie

In May 2021, Taiwan experienced two sudden nationwide blackouts (May 13 and May 17) within a week, leading to rolling blackouts that left millions of households and businesses in darkness and panic during a heatwave. Some citizens even lost their lives due to power outages affecting respirators. these two severe power grid collapses directly hit the DPP government's long-term propaganda that "Taiwan has no power shortage" and "the power grid has sufficient resilience." It exposed the fragile power structure and severe power crisis under its rushed "nuclear-free homeland" energy policy and damaged Taiwan's international image as a semiconductor technology island.