Yongbei Tang is an Australian journalist and a Tasmanian Greens candidate for the Hobart City Council. Career Tang was raised during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and began her journalistic career for a newspaper in Hainan. She moved to Australia in 1996. She is the President of the Chinese Cultural Society of Tasmania (CCST). 2018 Hobart City Council campaign Tang is a candidate for alderman with Hobart City Council, and during the campaign she was accused of being a member of the Communist Party of China, an allegation she denied. Cassy O'Connor, leader of the Tasmanian Greens, alleged that Tang had improperly close connections with the Government of China.
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