Taiwan's KMT leader Cheng Li-wun is pitching AI and the shift to zero carbon as the country's next big money-making chance, a hopeful message aimed at young business leaders.

• Cheng told a national junior chamber gathering in Tainan that AI and zero carbon are two changes every industry must go through.
• She framed both as openings rather than threats, with huge business opportunity for whoever moves first.
• Traditional manufacturing, services, and even farming and fishing can upgrade and boom in this shift, she said.
• She wants Taiwan to build a new group of world-beating companies, like the chip industry that has shielded the island for the past 40 years.
• Caught between the US and China, Taiwan should turn its own experience into a model it can export worldwide, with government and business working as partners.

Outlook: Expect the KMT to keep pushing an economic message built around AI and green industry as it courts younger voters and business.