Jaushieh Joseph Wu has spent his career carving out an international identity for his native Taiwan. He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of China (Taiwan) in February 2018, after serving as the top aide to President Tsai Ing-wen and after a stint as secretary-general of the National Security Council of Taiwan. He was Taiwan’s chief representative to the United States, as head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Washington, D.C. from 2007 to 20