Matt Bevan

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US presidential elections are a peculiar beast. If you want to track who's winning the race for the White House in real time, you have to know when results from key states come in.

ABC's If You're Listening host Matt Bevan recounts what it was like to be among thousands of people to listen to one of Donald Trump's last campaign rallies in Macomb County, Michigan.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has spent years fighting to send asylum seekers to an offshore detention facility. Not only has the plan failed, it's likely to help sweep his government out of office.

Australia’s housing market is, like many places in the Western world, in the midst of a crisis that feels like it will never be solved. Owning a property in an Australian city has only drifted further out of reach for most Australians in the last decade, and there are very few practical solutions on offer. Is it possible to actually unpick this situation? Japan offers a useful example. Thirty years ago, property in Tokyo was the most expensive in the world. Today, home ownership in that same ci…

China’s pandas are not just pandas. They’re diplomats. You’re friendly to China? You get a panda. You criticise China? You get no pandas.

Last year, stealing cryptocurrency became North Korea’s primary form of foreign currency income.

The best microchips in the world are made by TSMC. How did it become so important?

Trying to make something that works as both a podcast and a TV show has been tried before — and failed. But the ABC’s If You’re Listening podcast team is testing that theory.

Donald Trump has been charged after trying and failing to delete CCTV evidence of farcical and allegedly criminal behaviour. How was he brought undone by a bunch of boxes?

Today’s climate experts were in awe when the ABC played them quotes from one man in the early 1970s on the climate crisis and how it could be averted.

Chaos is bad for superannuation funds and climate change could mean a lot of chaos. Mary Delahunty, who analyses these scenarios for one of the country’s biggest super funds, takes us inside the attempt to reduce uncertainty.

The Awabakal people, from the land we now call Newcastle, are the only known people to include coal in their Dreaming stories. They warned that, if it was ever let out of the earth, there would be a great fire and darkness would spread over the land.

Just a few years ago he argued for more coal-fired power stations to be built on the east coast, but former Coalition cabinet minister Ian Macfarlane now says there could be none left within 10 years.

Malcolm Turnbull and Xi Jinping once discussed ancient Greece and whether war between the US and China was inevitable. The former prime minister believes the dialogue revealed the Chinese leader’s advantage over his Western counterparts, writes Matt Bevan.

Archive footage of Chinese students reveals what it was like to be an international student in Australia in 1965.

Huawei is the largest privately owned company in China and the world’s biggest manufacturer of smartphones. But like so many Chinese tech companies, the story of its birth begins with a swampy fishing town.

Against all expectations, the total value of Australian exports to China rose in the first part of 2021, and an expert in China’s financial system warns President Xi Jinping probably sees that as a strategic weakness.

Speaking after the Tiananmen Square massacre, Bob Hawke seemed to reveal more about what happened inside the square than many other world leaders. Now a previously classified diplomatic cable has shed light on how he came to have the details he read on national television and whether it was accurate.

'Down with Xi Jinping': China's President has heard it since he was a teenager