A man who built bridges over walls: SCMP’s Tammy Tam on Tung Chee-hwa
South China Morning Post publisher Tammy Tam reflects on her encounters with Hong Kong’s first chief executive, the late Tung Chee-hwa, looking back on memories from her days as a frontline reporter, his regular exchanges with media representatives and Tung’s rare appearance at an SCMP conference in 2020 to advocate US-China dialogue. Her recollections are part of a special SCMP commemorative…
Tammy Tam, publisher of the South China Morning Post, shares her reflections on her interactions with Hong Kong's first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa. She recalls her first encounter with Tung in 1996, as Hong Kong's newspaper of record prepared for its annual China Conference. Over the years, Tung was a regular guest at the conference, and Tammy often asked him about pressing issues facing the city and the world.
In 2020, Tung visited the SCMP in the midst of the Covid crisis and delivered a keynote speech emphasizing the importance of cooperation between Beijing and Washington. Tammy was also invited to Beijing in 2008 for the Olympic Games opening ceremony, an invitation that had been promised by Tung seven years earlier.
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