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Name changes would violate `status quo': US

NO SUPPORT The US State Department's spokesman said that the US does not support the president's plan to change the names of the nation's de facto embassies

By Charles Snyder  /  STAFF REPORTER IN WASHINGTON

Even Wyoming Republican Senator Craig Thomas, then the chairman of the East Asia and the Pacific subcommittee who was supportive of better ties with China, in a floor speech before the veto, conceded that, "I fail to see how this simple [TECRO] name change can cause so much consternation."

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