Trade war elephant in the showroom at Computex Taipei, Asia’s biggest tech expo

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There was an elephant in the showroom at this year’s Computex Taipei tech expo.Loud speakers boomed the guttural sounds of action games loud enough to be heard across dozens of booths, where blazing white lights glinted off the thin black edges of new microprocessors on display. Some of the show’s 86,521 prospective buyers tried out AI-enabled laptops with 3D displays – visible without special glasses – screening a country lane in Japan one moment, a complicated colon surgery the next.And...