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Covers:  China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Chinese society, Chinese community, Chinese-Australian, migrant, multicultural community, Human rights, democracy, religious freedom, freedom of speech, Chinese social media
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Bang Xiao is a bilingual reporter for the ABC Chinese service at the Asia Pacific Newsroom. His work often focuses on China and its influence in Australia, and stories from the migrant communities.

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Bang Xiao is a bilingual reporter at the ABC's Asia Pacific Newsroom. As a member of the ABC Chinese services…

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肖邦是澳大利亚广播公司（ABC）记者，他持续关注中港台及澳大利亚移民社区的政治民生事件。

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The Taiwan crisis no one saw coming, and it has nothing to do with war

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By Bang Xiao Verified
| ABC News (Australia) Verified
The Taiwan Strait's next crisis may not arrive with warships or missile tests. It may come through a boundary negotiation. Japan and the Philippines recently announced talks to delimit maritime boundaries in waters east of Taiwan — a move that has drawn protests from both Taipei and Beijing. It has exposed a growing vulnerability in Taiwan's international position, and revealed how the competition surrounding the strait is evolving well beyond the military domain.
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What Xi served Putin, Trump and Albanese at China's state banquet reveals more than any diplomatic statement

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By Bang Xiao Verified
| ABC News (Australia) Verified
Peking duck appeared on two of three menus. Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump received it. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Albanese did not. Over the past 12 months alone, Beijing has hosted over a dozen foreign leaders for lavish state banquets at the Great Hall of the People, including Trump, Putin, and Albanese. Menus from the Banquet Hall obtained exclusively by the ABC reveal how ducks in Beijing have remained China's most enduring diplomatic tool.
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US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping end unipolar age in Beijing

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By Bang Xiao Verified
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US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping end unipolar age in Beijing By Bang Xiao, 16 May 26, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-16/us-donald-trump-china-xi-jinping-end-unipolar-age-beijing/106687004 For nearly a decade, the world has braced for a collision. The dominant United States and a rising China, locked in escalating strategic competition, were said to be hurtling towards a Thucydides Trap that history suggested would be almost impossible to avoid.
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