After Washington broke off formal diplomatic relations with Taipei in 1979, the Executive Yuan established the Coordination Council for North American Affairs to handle non-official relations with the US. Allowing TECRO to be renamed the Taiwan Representative Office is therefore right and proper, and would correct the oddity that is its current name. In December last year, 78 US representatives wrote a letter to then-US secretary of state Mike Pompeo requesting that he approve the name change of Taiwan’s representative office. In May, a bipartisan group of US representatives proposed the “Taiwan diplomatic review act,” which contained a clause on rectifying the name of Taiwan’s representative office. If Washington were to take the lead in allowing the renaming of Taiwan’s representative office, other nations such as Japan would surely follow suit.

Source: Taipei Times September 23, 2021 16:06 UTC