Academia Sinica researchers analyzed a decade of Xi Jinping’s speeches and military parades using artificial intelligence — not for political language, mind you, but to assess his health. The study concluded that China’s leader shows “normal aging” despite weight gain. Commonwealth (天下) magazine cited the research during last week’s military parade coverage, contradicting speculation by some observers about Xi’s rapid health deterioration.
This month marks the third anniversary of significant AI computing chip export restrictions imposed by the United States on China. Has the stranglehold slowed China’s progress? Hardly. In a special report last week called “Un-killable Chinese AI” (打不死的中國AI) Taiwan’s Commonwealth (天下) magazine examined China’s resilient artificial intelligence sector across four major Chinese cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Shenzhen. In a note accompanying the series, editor-in-chief Chen Yi-shan (陳一姍) summed up the key reasons for China’s AI resilience: “The vast domestic population, diverse industries of the world’s second-largest economy, plus an efficient national system for mobilizing resources and fierce competition among tech giants have created China’s un-killable AI,” she wrote.
Taiwan’s CommonWealth (天下) magazine is an indispensable source for business reporting in the country — and now an essential window on how Trump’s tariffs are affecting the domestic economy. The magazine’s recent coverage after Trump’s first round of announced tariffs reported that Taiwan faced a steep 32 percent duty — higher than Japan or South Korea — creating immediate strategic dilemmas for manufacturers. The magazine’s reporting suggests companies are pursuing two main responses: accelerating investment in US production, or shifting operations to lower-tariff countries. Some English-language articles, like this one, are available on their website.
