Andrew Zi-Qi Fang

Andrew Zi-Qi Fang (方子齊) is Deutsche Welle's Washington-based Correspondent, providing multimedia coverage, including social media reels, documentaries and analytical articles in English and Chinese. Fang focuses on Washington's Indo-Pacific strategy.

Reporting from the White House, Capitol Hill and the State Department, he covered Trump’s Section 301 tariffs against Taiwanese chipmakers. Fang was on the ground for the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska and for the President’s meeting with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and European leaders in the West Wing.

As immigration policies came under the spotlight during the 2024 Elections, Fang reported on their impact on the Chinese American community along the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2025, he exclusively interviewed Chinese asylum seeker Heng Guan, who was detained by ICE for months. He also produced in-depth documentaries about Chinese Muslims in New York and right-wing immigrants in San Francisco.

Before his career in Washington, Fang was an anchor and journalist at the Chinese Television System (華視) and TVBS Media in Taipei, Taiwan. He anchored a special report on then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit and the upcoming PLA military drills. Fang was also deployed to Turkey, Nigeria and South Africa to cover business and natural disasters.

Fang graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern
University with a master's degree in Journalism, specializing in
Politics, Policy and Foreign Affairs. During the Washington-based
program, he contributed articles to UPI and interned at ABC7
Washington's production desk.

Fang holds a bachelor’s degree in Taiwanese Literature, under the Program of Journalism and Communication, at National Cheng Kung University. He grew up in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He speaks English, Mandarin, Taiwanese and Cantonese.