As the US Senate passed a Bill on February 12, 2016 to name 3503 International Place, which is presently the official address of the Chinese Embassy, as “1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza” to honour the Nobel Prize winning Chinese dissident on the seventh anniversary of his arrest, the state-controlled Global Times on February 14, 2016, called the move provocative and said it was intended to outrage Beijing, although China would not consider it a big deal. It said “The US has been at its wits’ end in dealing with China as it is reluctant to employ military threats or economic sanctions that may backfire,” adding that “The only option for Washington seems to be petty actions that disturb China.”