Passage of US bill ‘shows anti-China sentiment’By Peng Wan-hsin and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writerUS lawmakers’ passage of a bill that aims to ensure the country’s leadership in the Indo-Pacific region shows growing anti-China sentiment in the US Congress, a researcher said on Friday. The US House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday passed the Ensuring American Global Leadership and Engagement Act (EAGLE Act), which contains several provisions regarding the US’ diplomatic and economic ties with Taiwan. “The renaming of Taiwan’s representative office in the US in particular must be addressed, because the current name — the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office — does not sound political in nature,” Ding said. “The current name reduces Taiwan’s status to that of Hong Kong.”Former minister of foreign affairs Chen Chien-jen (程建人) said the bill shows that US-China relations have hit a new low. The EAGLE Act needs to be reviewed by the full House before being put to a vote in both chambers of Congress and being signed into law by the US president.

Source: Taipei Times July 20, 2021 15:56 UTC