Taiwan’s top envoy to the United States said Monday that the self-ruled democratic island needs greater economic integration with the rest of the world to better protect itself from the military threat posed by China. As part of efforts toward that end, Alexander Tah-ray Yui, speaking at a think tank event in Washington, said Taiwan is very eager to be included in a major trans-Pacific free trade pact that involves countries such as Australia, Canada, Japan, Singapore and Vietnam, but not China or the United States. The further such integration advances, “the better we are protected against ma…