Reactions to Chen's name-changing proposals

Today's Taipei Times reports (and editorializes) on several reactions to Chen's proposals to change the names of de facto embassies and state-run organizations:

• Name changes would violate 'status quo': US (not very surprising)
• DPP caucus defends name-change plan (no surprise, either)
• Airline, other firms resistant to name change proposal (they say it would be expensive)
• Editorial: 'Taiwan' means what it says (again, nothing surprising)

One thing that comes out of all this is that it's much clearer that the name change has more to do with sovereignty than with clarifying easily-confused names. (This, again, isn't a big surprise--I was purposely taking Chen's comments at face value in my previous note, but I don't think that's necessary anymore.) It's also quite clearly being discussed right now because of the legislative elections. I've seen at least one "green" representative say that those who don't approve of the change "don't love Taiwan." We'll see what happens to these ideas once the elections are over...