The US Senate’s unanimous move to back a plan to rename a road in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington after a leading pro-democracy dissident provoked an angry reaction from a state-run Chinese newspaper on Sunday which termed it as “petty” and “rash”.
The US Senate had unanimously approved a Bill to rename a the stretch of road in front of the Chinese Embassy after liu Xiaobo, who was jailed for 11 years in 2009 for subversion. The Bill, passed on Friday, was put forward by Senator Ted Cruz. A similar Bill was passed by the House of Representatives in June 2014.
This would change the China’s Embassy address in Washington from 3505 Intern-ational Place to 1 liu Xiaobo Plaza, embarrassing Beijing as every letter at the compound would bear name of the incarcerated Chinese dissident.