China Flashes New Tech Swagger to World Markets Convulsed by War

At the world’s largest trade show, it’s not just the clientele that had a different look this year.

Despite the near absence of buyers wearing a traditional Arab headdress and robe at the Canton Fair, a vast showcase that started last week in China’s southern metropolis of Guangzhou, a brash new generation of tech companies stood out just as much. Few wanted to dwell on the war.