Tsai Ming-yen () is a Taiwanese International relations scholar and diplomat.

Education and academic career

Tsai completed a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Soochow University, followed by a Master of Laws from Tamkang University, and subsequently earned a doctorate in war studies at

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. In the early 2000s, Tsai was an associate research fellow within the division of strategic and international studies at the

Taiwan Research Institute Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeas ...

. By 2005, Tsai had been appointed an assistant professor of international politics at National Chung Hsing University. As an academic, Tsai commented on Cross-Strait relations,

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, and the

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Diplomatic career

In June 2017, Tsai took office as deputy secretary-general of the

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, alongside secretary-general Yen Teh-fa. While working at the NSC, Tsai Ming-yen traveled as part of the presidential delegation to Eswatini, Paraguay, and Haiti. He attended APEC Papua New Guinea 2018 as a member of the delegation representing the Tsai Ing-wen presidential administration. In Taiwan, Tsai Ming-yen commented on a meeting Tsai Ing-wen held with Governor of Colorado Jared Polis in July 2019, and led a May 2020 meeting with United States Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary for North Korea Alex Wong. He was questioned by the

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about the Hong Kong national security law that same month. Tsai Ming-yen's appointment as Taiwan's representative to the European Union and Belgium was announced in June 2020. As representative to the EU, Tsai met with European Parliament vice-president

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in December 2020, and marked the tenth anniversary of the

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waiver's application to Taiwan in 2021. In August 2022, Tsai was named deputy foreign minister. Tsai remained at his European post through October 2022, and took office as deputy minister by November. As deputy foreign minister, Tsai visited Poland in December 2022 to sign three memorandums of understanding regarding trade and the semiconductor industry. Later that month, he hosted a banquet for Polish politician

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in Taiwan and met with Tony Fernandes, the deputy assistant secretary of the Department of State's Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, and the first senior US official to visit Taiwan since US President Joe Biden assumed office. In mid-January 2023, Tsai hosted a banquet for the first delegation of Spanish Congress of Deputies members to visit Taiwan since November 2019. On 26 January 2023, Tsai was appointed director-general of the National Security Bureau.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tsai, Ming-yen Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Representatives of Taiwan to the European Union Representatives of Taiwan to Belgium Academic staff of the National Chung Hsing University International relations scholars Alumni of King's College London Taiwanese expatriates in the United Kingdom Taiwanese political scientists Tamkang University alumni Soochow University (Taiwan) alumni Fulbright alumni