CHINA-US: REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS MOVES BILL TO FORBID DESIGNATING CHINESE PRESIDENT AS 'PRESIDENT'
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The South China Morning Post (August 21) reported that Representative Scott Perry (Rep-Pennsylvania), who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has introduced a bill to change the way the federal government refers to the leader of China, prohibiting the use of the term “president”. The Name the Enemy Act would require that official US government documents instead refer to the head of state according to his or her role as head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It states that designating him as “president” offers unwarranted legitimacy to an unelected leader. The legislation states: “Addressing the head of state of the People’s Republic of China as a “president” grants the incorrect assumption that the people of the state, via democratic means, have readily legitimised the leader who rules them”. It additionally prohibits the use of federal funds for the “creation or dissemination” of official documents and communications that refer to the China’s leader as “president”.
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