In Taiwan, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Tseng Houren confirmed in the Legislative Yuan that the Taiwanese government has initiated work to rename its representative office in the United States the “Taiwan Representative Office” and thanked U.S. lawmakers for their support. Seventy-eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a joint letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week calling for the name of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States to be corrected.
Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan held a meeting of the Interior and Foreign Affairs Committee on Monday (21), and legislators were concerned about the call by U.S. lawmakers to rename Taiwan’s representative office in the United States.
DPP legislator Luo Zhi-cheng criticized the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for issuing an incomprehensible statement on the renaming of the representative office in the United States.
According to Luo, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement expressed sincere appreciation for the friendly actions of the federal congressmen in support of the U.S.-Taiwan relationship. It has been a long-standing goal of our government’s work with the United States to comprehensively strengthen and enhance U.S.-Taiwan relations, and it 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 to pursue our best interests and continue to steadily deepen the all-round partnership between Taiwan and the United States.
According to Luo, the statement does not let the people of Taiwan know whether they welcome the congressman’s request for a name change and whether the Taiwan authorities want to change the name of the representative office.
Not long ago, 78 members of the U.S. Congress sent a joint letter to Secretary of State Pompeo, saying they wanted to agree to the name of Taiwan’s representative office in the U.S., which is now called the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO). They want to call it Taiwan Representative Office, which is very clear. Translate this for me, Mr. Vice President, is this a yes or no? Do you support or not support it? I am sure that the U.S. side is still not sure about this request.
In response to a question, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Zeng Houren, confirmed for the first time that the Ministry is working on renaming the representative office.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been working on the renaming of its representative office for the first time,” said Mr. Zeng Houren, who reported to the committee members that the ongoing case has its own sensitivity, so I ……
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Luo Zhizheng said, “North American Affairs Coordination Council” has been renamed “Taiwan American Affairs Council”, in this vein, the name change to Taiwan is no longer a sensitive matter, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is required to actively promote. He pointed out that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can be more daring in some matters, now is not the time and space environment of 20 to 30 years ago, the people of Taiwan also hope that the government can have a clear direction.
Zeng Houren said, Taiwan’s more than 100 representative offices abroad to correct the name is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs efforts to achieve the goal, but to the time is ripe.
After the United States announced the establishment of diplomatic relations with China in 1979 and broke off diplomatic relations with Taiwan, the United States established the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), and Taiwan established the North American Affairs Coordinating Committee (NACAC) in the United States. A joint letter from 78 members of Congress called for a change in the name of this agency.
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