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[reports the US is] “seriously considering” allowing the Taiwanese government to rename its representative office in Washington to include the word “Taiwan”. Currently Taipei’s representative office in the United States formally goes by the name “Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office” – however, there’s a current proposal to change it to “Taiwan Representative Office” in direct defiance of the mainland’s claims of sovereignty over the island. Though an official reaction out of Beijing wasn’t forthcoming, the typically outspoken editor of state-run English publication Global Times voiced what top communist party officials are surely thinking, warning of “full scale” sanctions and...
