US Lawmakers Push to Rename Taiwan’s de Facto Embassy in Washington

Flags of Taiwan and U.S. are placed for a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 27, 2018. Tyrone Siu/Reuters

WASHINGTON—A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers proposed matching bills in the Senate and House of Representatives on Thursday that would require the United States to negotiate the renaming of Taiwan’s de facto embassy in Washington as the “Taiwan Representative Office,” a move certain to rankle the Chinese communist regime.

It is currently called the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO), using the name of the island’s capital city.