Emergency shelter at Thurgood Marshall high school. Many shelters open in and around the state, churches are opening up. Something with smaller churches, the place of worship, they expect to get help and they do. Houston had been a city is a always started in a time of crisis. When katrina hit new orleans which is my hometown, many of them stayed. We open the doors around the red carpet and you are seeing that kind of behavior being rewarded. People all over the country are helping, eternally grateful. Dont know if theres time to watch the president s physics, what do you make of the president coming this way . What do you want to hear from him. Great work to be done. I want to hear the president talk about how we are going to recover. This is not a matter of months, weeks, years, it might be more than a decade making this recovery. It will be extensive, it will engulf the entire state of texas and go into louisiana, this has been an epic event, something you dont just see in your life
Ask you to check that the various mobile devices have been silenced or turned off as we prepare to begin. For everyone inhouse there will be a slight shift in the program agenda. Our keynote will now follow our first panel, but it will also occur before the break that is scheduled before the second panel. So, opening our discussion today will be dr. Lee edwards, distinguished fellow and conservative thought here at the Heritage Foundation. Please join me in welcoming dr. Edwards. [applause] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to the Heritage Foundation. We thank you so much for coming out today. August is something of a slow month in washington, dc, and were so pleased that we could attract some of this Towns Limited attention to the matter of u. S. Taiwan relations. And i extend a warm welcome to our speakers, panelists, and of course, to you, members of the audience. Particularly want to offer my appreciation to the Taiwan Benevolent Association of america, and the inst
Im sure this is not a wakeup call. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, president lee, honorable guests and distinguished speaker. On behalf of the Taiwan Benevolent Association of america, thank you Heritage Foundation for this opportunity to be the cosponsor of this forum. This forum we hope through this forum we are not only reinforce relationship between United States of america and republic of china but also we can have the people of the two countries to understand to build better relationship than ever. So this is my very short speech, and i thank you for your comment and thank you for your support. Enjoy this afternoon. Thank you. [applause] and also like to introduce another cohost, organizer, in ita institute of taiwan and american studies. [applause] now were going to start the panel and talking about the economy issue, policies interesting but it comes fundamental. Everything is fundamental. We are going to go by the order on the program so we will start riley from the Heri
KMT chairman Chiang plans visit to Washington
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By Shih Hsiao-kuang and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Johnny Chiang (江啟臣) intends to visit Washington this year to mark the opening of a KMT office there and meet with US officials, a source said yesterday.
After the COVID-19 pandemic has “slowed down,” Chiang would visit Washington, where he would meet with members of the Taiwan Benevolent Association of Metropolitan Washington, the source said.