2020/12/29 17:17 President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater on Dec. 28, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater on Dec. 28, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP photo) With only a few weeks to go before Joseph Biden becomes president of the United States, Taiwan’s American friends need to press hard for the policies we want to see the new administration pursue toward Taiwan.
Most important, we must continue to strengthen Taiwan’s security As Randall Schriver, chairman of the Project 2049 Institute, and Ian Easton, senior director at the same institute, have recently reiterated, we must counter the enormous military threat the People’s Republic of China (PRC) poses to Taiwan, Asia, the United States, and the world.
2020/12/21 16:38 Deputy Foreign Minister Harry Tseng (CNA photo) Deputy Foreign Minister Harry Tseng (CNA photo) [Last update: December 22 at 9:42 a.m.] TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said it is in the process of pushing for the name change of the country’s office in Washington to the Taiwan Representative Office in the U.S. At the moment, only 16 countries and territories include the word “Taiwan” in the name of Taiwan s foreign missions or representative offices. The group is comprised of Taiwan s 15 diplomatic allies plus Somaliland, which use names such as the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in Honduras.
Congress members urge U.S. to allow name change for Taiwan office
12/18/2020 07:33 PM
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Washington, Dec. 17 (CNA) Members of the United States Congress on Thursday sent a joint letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, urging the U.S. government to allow Taiwan to change the name of its office in Washington to the Taiwan Representative Office.
The suggested name change from the existing Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office was one of the three issues raised by 78 members of the House of Representatives with respect to the U.S.-Taiwan bilateral relationship. For the past forty years, the State Department has not referred to Taiwan as Taipei, Chinese Taipei, Taiwan, China, or some other name, the letter read, noting that the use of the name Taipei fails to accurately reflect the strong ties between the two countries.
2020/12/18 15:28 U.S., Taiwan flags (Getty Images) U.S., Taiwan flags (Getty Images) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Seventy-eight lawmakers from the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday (Dec. 17) sent a joint letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, calling for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in Washington D.C. to be renamed Taiwan Representative Office. The politicians, including representatives Michael McCaul and Ted Yoho, wrote to Pompeo pointing out that over the past 40 years, the U.S. State Department has not referred to Taiwan as Taipei or Chinese Taipei. They stated that exchanges between the U.S. and Taiwan are not limited to national governments, but also include local governments and people. Therefore, the use of Taipei does not truly reflect the current reality of bilateral relations, they reasoned.