Tsai Ming-yen (diplomat)

Tsai Ming-yen (Chinese: 蔡明彥) is a Taiwanese political scientist and diplomat.

Tsai earned a doctorate at King's College London.[1]

In the early 2000s, Tsai was an associate research fellow within the division of strategic and international studies at the Taiwan Research Institute.[2] By 2005, Tsai had been appointed an assistant professor of international politics at National Chung Hsing University.[3] As an academic, Tsai commented on Cross-Strait relations,[3][4] China–United States relations,[5][6][7] Taiwan–United States relations,[8][9][10] and the People's Liberation Army.[11]

In June 2017, Tsai took office as deputy secretary-general of the National Security Council, alongside secretary-general Yen Teh-fa.[12] While working at the NSC, Tsai Ming-yen traveled as part of the presidential delegation to Eswatini,[13] Paraguay,[14][15] and Haiti.[16] He attended APEC Papua New Guinea 2018 as a member of the delegation representing the Tsai Ing-wen presidential administration.[17] In Taiwan, Tsai Ming-yen commented on a meeting Tsai Ing-wen held with Governor of Colorado Jared Polis in July 2019,[18] and led a May 2020 meeting with United States Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary for North Korea Alex Wong.[19] He was questioned by the Legislative Yuan about the Hong Kong national security law that same month.[20]

Tsai Ming-yen's appointment as Taiwan's representative to the European Union and Belgium was announced in June 2020.[21][22][23] As representative to the EU, Tsai met with Nicola Beer in December 2020,[24] and marked the tenth anniversary of the Schengen visa waiver's application to Taiwan in 2021.[25]