The representative office of the Taiwan authorities in the United States has changed its name, and there are different opinions in the United States. A few days ago, cross-party members of the US Congress launched a case of renaming the Taiwan Provincial Representative Office in the United States, demanding that the US Secretary of State should contact The Taiwan side

The representative office of the Taiwan authorities in the United States has changed its name, and there are different opinions in the United States.

A few days ago, cross-party members of the US Congress launched a case on the renaming of the Taiwan Provincial Representative Office in the United States, demanding that the US Secretary of State should consult with the Taiwan side and change its name to "Taiwan Representative Office." US experts and scholars have their own views on this.

Nan Le, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, said such name changes are getting closer and closer to Beijing's red line and have only symbolic significance for Taiwan, but have no substantial benefit to Taiwan when considering the risk of escalating military conflict.

But Shuxian Kan, a former Asian security researcher at the U.S. Congressional Research Service, said that in the context of Beijing's threat to Lithuania, the name change has its importance, the United States can show solidarity with Lithuania, and let China know the consequences of the action, in addition to representing the leadership of the United States in the world, and finally, this is not the use of the official name "Republic of China", but the use of the name "Taiwan".

Quoting the Financial Times last year, the Biden administration is seriously considering the renaming of Taiwan's representative office in the United States, and the White House Indo-Pacific coordinator Campbell is inclined to agree to the name change, which is widely supported by the State Department's Asian affairs officials.