 Tang was unrestrained in speaking, at times scathingly, in opposition to the Hong Kong Government.He was particularly incensed by its intransigence on democratic reform.In a speech, on 18 February 2016, to the Foreign Correspondents Club, Hong Kong, in reference to the Chief Executive's policy address, he said,

"Whoever wrote that for the first sentence for the chief executive, if he himself did not write it, must be a comedian; or perhaps a monkey who accidentally typed up those words on a typewriter.