 The mission serves as the office of the Coordination Council for North American Affairs (CCNAA) in Washington DC, established in 1979 as the counterpart to AIT, after the United States established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.The council was renamed Taiwan Council for US Affairs in 2019.In 1994, as a result of the Clinton Administration's Taiwan Policy Review, the name of the CCNAA office in Washington, D.C. (which functioned as an embassy) was changed to Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO).