35 Cities to Participate in Nationwide 'CHINA Town Hall'

Americans accumulate to altercate the issues about China that amount to the 2008 campaigns. Developments in China, and America's acknowledgment to these developments, accept a absolute appulse on the lives of just about anybody in the United States. Yet this attack has not offered Americans the befalling to altercate China, and what U.S. action should be

-- In this year of presidential and Congressional elections, the role of China, and its aftereffect on the lives of every American, has a axial abode in discussions of U.S. adopted policy. CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections, a civic accident accepting conducted in thirty-five cities on Thursday, April 17, will accommodate a different befalling for Americans to apprentice about the accent of China's accord with the United States, and accept the questions that amount to them answered by arch China specialists.

Presented by the National Committee on United States-China Relations, CHINA Town Hall will affection acclaimed political analyst Norman J. Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute discussing, via abide webcast, how China abstracts as an affair in the 2008 presidential and Congressional elections. He will again acknowledge to questions from admirers associates throughout the country in a chat chastened by National Committee President Stephen A. Orlins. Following the civic allocation of the program, anniversary area will accept an on-site China specialist who will abode capacity of accurate absorption to the bounded community.

"Developments in China, and America's acknowledgment to these developments, accept a absolute appulse on the lives of just about anybody in the United States. Yet this attack has not offered Americans the befalling to altercate China, and what U.S. action should be," said Stephen A. Orlins, President of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. CHINA Town Hall is advised to accord Americans the befalling to altercate these issues with America's arch experts."

The National Committee on United States-China Relations is the arch national, non-partisan accessible address alignment adherent alone to architecture able and abiding relationships amid the United States and China. The Committee's chain of acquaintance and abyss of associations in Greater China and the United States accomplish it a civic resource. The Committee creates opportunities for abreast altercation and articular agitation about the issues of accepted absorption and affair to the United States, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan.

For advice and locations, amuse appointment the web website of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Participating cities and states include:

AR, Rogers; AZ, Phoenix; CA, Berkeley; CA, San Diego; CA, Santa Barbara; CO, Denver; CT, New Haven; DE, Newark; FL, Sarasota; FL, Vero Beach; GA, Atlanta; HI, Honolulu; IL, Chicago; IN, Fishers; KS, Manhattan; LA, New Orleans; MA, Bosto; MD, Baltimore; ME, Waterville; MI, Ann Arbor; MT, Missoula; NC, Raleigh; NH, Nashua; NY, Buffalo; NY, Ithaca; NY, New York; OK, Tulsa; PA, Philadelphia; SC, Greenville; SD, Brookings; TN, Memphis; TX, Houston; WA, Pullman; WA, Spokane; WI, La Crosse

Also: China, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei

Contact:
Joseph Weed
Director of Communications
National Committee on United States-China Relations
71 West 23rd Street, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10010
212-645-9677 ext. 11