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Hsiao Bi-khim

Diplomat · Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Hsiao Bi-khim is subject to counter-sanctions. Counter-sanctions are designations imposed by countries with weak democratic institutions. They are often punitive responses to foreign sanctions, or can be used to suppress domestic political opposition. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Bi-Khim Hsiao · Hsiao Bi-khim · Siao Bi Him · Siao Mej-čchin · Сьяу Бикхим · 4 more...				[sources]
Other name	Bi-khim Hsiao · Hsia Bi-khim · Hsiao Bi-khim · Hsiao Mei-chin · Hsiao, Bi-Khim · 8 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	シャウ・ビィキム · シャオ・メイチン · 萧美琴 · 샤오비킴 · 소미금				[sources]
Birth date	1971-08-07				[sources]
Place of birth	Kobe				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	Taiwan				[sources]
Country	Taiwan				[sources]
Citizenship	Taiwan · United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Louise				[sources]
Last name	Xiao				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q700752				[sources]
Position	Legislative Yuan (member, 2012-2016) · Legislative Yuan (member, 2016-) · Member of the Legislative Yuan (2002-2005) · Member of the Legislative Yuan (2005-2008) · Member of the Legislative Yuan (2012-2016) · 4 more...				[sources]
Education	Columbia University · Montclair High School · National University of Tainan Affiliated Primary School · Oberlin College (1989-1993) · Tainan Municipal Houjia Junior High School				[sources]
Religion	Presbyterianism				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-19	Last processed	2025-11-03	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Vice President of Taiwan since 2024

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-08-20

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
China	Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council		2022-08-16	-

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Hsiao Ching-fen Close Associate	father	-	-
Cooley Peggy Close Associate	mother	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Republic of China representative to the United States	2020-07-24	2023-11-30
Member of the Legislative Yuan

Data sources

US CIA World Leaders11,042

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

China Sanctions Research218

Individuals and organisations targeted by the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, Counter-Measures List and the Unreliable Entities List (UEL).

China · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories359,645

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,230

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician57,893

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,091

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata333,115

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-b0f829ed-86a5-4ce7-bcb0-12339adf3472 · us-cia-taiwan-hsiao-bi-khim-vice-president

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