Seventy-eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives have called on the State Department to change the name of Taiwan‘s Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) to Taiwan Representative Office (TRO). Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Tseng Houren said today in the Legislative Yuan that “there is a process underway.
A total of 78 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including Steve Chabot (R-OH) and Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), co-chairs of the Congressional Taiwan Connection, sent a joint letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on 17 July, calling on the U.S. government to agree to change the name of our representative office in the United States from “Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office” to “Taiwan Representative Office”. The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said that the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has been working with the U.S. Department of State (DOF) to strengthen the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).
In response, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that strengthening and enhancing Taiwan-U.S. relations has been a long-standing goal of our government’s work with the United States and is in line with the expectations of the Taiwanese people. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the U.S. Representative Office will continue to maintain close ties with the U.S. side, strive for Taiwan’s best interests, and continue to steadily deepen the all-round partnership between Taiwan and the U.S.
In the morning, Tseng Houren attended the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee of the Legislative Yuan, and DPP member Luo Zhi-Zheng asked about the attitude of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during questioning. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded that the case in progress has its own sensitivity.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been in the process of developing a new product. He responded, “It’s in progress. He pointed out that it has always been the direction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ efforts to rectify the name. This is a sign of concrete support for Taiwan from the Taiwan Link cross-party in Congress, which we appreciate and welcome.
Luo Zhizheng stressed that it is no longer sensitive to put “Taiwan” in the representative office, and the North American Affairs Coordination Council has already changed its name to Taiwan-United States Affairs Coordination Council. Zeng Houren said that it is not sensitive to the people of the country, but it is sensitive to some people who listen to it.
Luo Zhizheng said that something the Foreign Ministry can be a little bolder, it is no longer the time and space environment of 20 or 30 years ago, it will step on a mine or speak wrongly, because the country also needs the government to give a clear direction.
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