However, former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Lin Cho-shui (林濁水) said the changes were made out of landscaping needs, and outsiders should not turn the matter into a political issue.

Taiwan News 
Date: 2017/10/04
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—The new look of the landscaping national emblem of the Republic of China at Twin Oaks in Washington D.C. appears in the “Dynamic Taiwan, Embracing the World” video released by Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs after changes made to the landscaping had incurred criticism from lawmakers of opposition Kuomintang (KMT).

The video, which has just been released to show Taiwan’s vitality and multicultural society, shows that a traditional boat of the Yami tribe is placed in front of the national emblem and a green Taiwan with a logo of “I love Taiwan” is standing in the middle of the landscaping.

In the spring of this year when the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S. (TECRO) began planning to make changes to the landscaping as part of a project to beautify Twin Oaks to mark the 80th anniversary of it being used by Taiwan’s representative office in the U.S., the KMT voiced its criticism, saying the landscaping national emblem at Twin Oaks was disappearing and that the place was changing its color, too.    [FULL  STORY]