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In a new interview, the self-governing island’s top diplomat to the United States says he isn’t worried about being “traded off to the Chinese.”
Taiwan’s Representative to the United States Alexander Tah-ray Yui is seen at the Twin Oaks Estate in Washington. | Greg Kahn for POLITICO
Phelim Kine is POLITICO’s Washington-based China correspondent.
With President Donald Trump eyeing a $14 billion weapons sale to Taiwan as a “negotiating chip” with China, Alexander Tah-ray Yui is on the front lines of the effort to ensure the administration doesn’t buckle to Beijing.








