As Jason Hsuan discusses his efforts to double his company’s sales over the next few years, he allows himself a joke. “I have a five-year plan,” he says. “You see, I am a communist.”

The throw-away comment from the 66-year-old chairman and chief executive of TPV Technology touches on a remarkable detail about his past, one that he believes has been instrumental in his creation of the world’s biggest maker of computer screens, with sales last year of $8.4bn (€5.3bn, £4.2bn).