Government. Host andy purdy is the chief Security Officer from huawei and based here in washington dc and he is our guest this week on the communicators. Mr. Purdy, what do you do for huawei as chief Security Officer . Guest my primary role is internal so ive been doing more external things in the last six, 12 months but my response ability have to do with chairing a committee of the key parts of the company in the United States to try to assess and manage and control risk and help support our overall ethics and Compliance Program so we can make sure we protect huawei protect our customers and we can continue to do business and manage the Cybersecurity Private seat risk. Host what is their legal and commercial status in the u. S. Right now . Guest its a moving target. We have National Defense authorization act and we have pending rulemaking pursuant to executive order and right now we can sell to the u. S. Government and cant sell to the u. S. Contractors and there is pressure for our
I appreciate all of you coming out. Thank you. I particularly want to think russell and Global Taiwan Institute for partnering with us on this program today. Im glad we could work this out. There was a little election over the weekend and i dont know if everyone noticed but judging by the turnout perhaps you did. At the outset here i want to say a couple words about the election of taiwan on saturday and just a couple and turn it over to our guests and Panel Speakers to offer advice and insight. First of all, i think that the election says more about taiwan than it says about anything else. I only highlight that because i think we are immediately moving to what this means for china. For all practical purposes, all practical purposes, taiwan is not a part of china. Why do we move immediately to talk about what this means for china . What it means most is that taiwan values the same things that the rest of the free world values, its conducted its southern president ial election and major
Of criticism for targeting these programs that provide billions of dollars in federal funding for Public School programs. At the se time, he proposed a investment in School Choice, which is the next spansion the expansion of Charter Schools and private schools, even choice among private Public Schools. Some of the programs targeted that stirred up a lot of controversy included more than 2 billion for teacher training and classroom reduction. It is a Popular Program. Studies about this program have showed mixed results. It is on the chopping block for the Top Administration and trumpicans in Progress Administration and republicans in congress. Congressman like reblican lou barletta, who supported President Trump saying this is a bad idea. You cannot cut these funds for afterschool programs. In general, republicans have shown a hesitancy to fund to back some of these cuts. Earlier this year we saw a republican senator tell education secretary diverse that that hist devos budget is hard t
Relationship between china and taiwan. From the Global Taiwan Institute this is just over hour. All right. Okay. Well good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Global Taiwan Institute. My name is russell hsiao, im the executive director here at gti. Gti is a 501 c 3 thinktank dedicated to taiwan policy research and analysis. Our mission is to enhance the u. S. Taiwan relationship through public education. We undertake several major programs that include a weekly publication called the global taiwan with brief, where we invite experts to contribute timely articles. We also have a Seminar Series that you are all participating in today where we invite practitioners as well as scholars to focus on current developments related to policy issues that affect the u. S. Taiwan relationship. Coming up very shortly we will be hosting our inaugural annual symposium on september 14th and this is going to be our flagship event. Were expecting a large turnout of people within government as well as acad
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