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Judi Lynn

(160,527 posts)
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 02:55 AM Apr 2020

Houston mayor thanks China for donation of face masks

Source: Xinhua


(Xinhua) 14:12, April 03, 2020

HOUSTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Thursday thanked the Chinese city of Shanghai for its donation of 21,000 face masks.

"Let me thank Shanghai, China because there are 21,000 masks that they offered. Those masks are on the ground here in the city of Houston and now within our possession. So I want to thank them for their donation. Thank you very, very much," Turner said during a news conference.

Chinese Consul General in Houston Cai Wei made a phone call to Turner Friday, promising that Shanghai will help Houston, its sister city, combat COVID-19.

In the phone call, Cai expressed support for the mayor and the citizens of Houston, saying that Shanghai and the Chinese Consulate General in Houston will provide help within its capacity to Houston in the fight against COVID-19.

Read more: http://en.people.cn/n3/2020/0403/c90000-9675958.html

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Houston mayor thanks China for donation of face masks (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2020 OP
We've become supplicants and beggars, thanks to Trump. nt SunSeeker Apr 2020 #1
Surprised they didn't ask for a parade. Igel Apr 2020 #2

Igel

(35,300 posts)
2. Surprised they didn't ask for a parade.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 09:45 AM
Apr 2020

To feed their nationalism. Like they did in Italy.

But that's social solidarity and equality--if you're not superior you're obviously inferior.

Does everybody who gets help qualify as a "supplicant and beggar"? Was China? How about SNAP recipients?

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