CHINA-US: HUMAN RIGHTS
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The US House Appropriations Committee voted on June 24, 2014, to rename the stretch of road in front of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Washington DC as the “Liu Xiaobo Plaza,” in a symbolic nod to the Nobel Prize-winning dissident and criticism of China's human rights record. The white-stone Chinese Embassy compound is at 3505 International Place NW. The amendment to the annual State Department spending bill, offered by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), instructs Secretary of State John Kerry to rename the street and declares: “For the purposes of United States Postal code, hereafter the proper address of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington, District of Columbia, shall be No. 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza.”
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