As you may have heard, on December 2, AIT and TECRO signed an important Memorandum of Understanding on international education cooperation. This MOU gives Taiwan and the United States the opportunity to strengthen our cooperation and collaboration on international education. The goal of this MOU is to provide more opportunities for more Americans to come teach and study in Taiwan, and more people from Taiwan to pursue education and teaching in the U.S. As a start, both sides have agreed to expand existing programs for two-way educational exchange, including the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program (FLTA). And today in our audience we have about 60 FLTA’s who will go to the United States to teach Chinese to Americans. As an American who has spent many years studying Chinese, I know you have a formidable task and I wish you good luck!