Kaity Tong is a Chinese-born American

United States

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 broadcast journalist who has been a television news anchor in New York City

New York City

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 since 1981.

Born in Qingdao

Qingdao

' also known in the West by its postal map spelling Tsingtao, is a major city with a population of over 8.715 million in eastern Shandong province, Eastern China. Its built up area, made of 7 urban districts plus Jimo city, is home to about 4,346,000 inhabitants in 2010.It borders Yantai to the...

 in the Peoples Republic of China to George and Anita Tong, Tong came to the United States with her family at age four. Growing up in Washington D.C., Tong was inspired to become a journalist by her great-uncle Hollington K. Tong, an Ambassador to the U.S.