Taiwan’s president is not having an easy time of it at home or with the U.S.

With the exception of Israel, no foreign entity elicits as much bipartisan support in Washington as Taiwan. The self-ruled democratic island is David to China’s Goliath, a relatively small pseudo-country (the United States and much of the world don’t recognize Taiwan as a state) under constant threat from the Chinese Communist Party that has long striven to reunify the island with mainland China.

If anything, Chinese President Xi Jinping is even more intent on reunification than his predecessors, ordering the People’s Liberation Army to have the military assets in place to invade Taiwan by 2027 .

But that’s only the half of it for Taiwan’s political leadership. While Taipei’s relations with the United States remain strong at an institutional level, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has