The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Sunday, April 29, 2012

Useful toe treading by Taiwan?

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Aerial view of Taiping, with airstrip clearly visible If handled properly, overlapping claims in the South China Sea could give Taiwan a...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

‘Carrier killer’ program goes ahead

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A computer rendition of the corvette provided by MND Between seven and 11 500-tonne Swift Sea stealth corvettes, each equipped with eigh...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Where’s the sense of national pride?

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President Ma's inauguration, May 20, 2008 Cutting costs is one thing. Slashing budgets on symbols of national pride, while spending ...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

The dragon wants out of the bottle

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The pattern of Chinese flights around the waters near Okinawa indicates greater efforts at intelligence collection  Up until recently Ch...

New US intelligence agency to place emphasis on China

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The Defense Clandestine Service has been tasked with focusing on ‘national intelligence’ and major ‘ascendant powers’  US intelligence i...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

USAF long-range exercise may have had China in mind

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A nation-wide bombing exercise involving aircraft based in Japan highlighted the US Air Force’s ability to operate in a large anti-access ...
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Monday, April 23, 2012

Navigating the pivot

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Renewed US leadership in the region can benefit everybody, including China Although the claim that the US had abandoned Asia never fully...
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US coast guard, navy help rescue Taiwanese vessel

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A volunteer global network whose origins can be traced back to the sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago also took part in the operation ...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Beijing’s convenient bad neighbor

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As long as conflict in the Korean Peninsula does not devolve into war, North Korea will remain a useful tool for Beijing to distract its adv...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Anti-airborne drill at Hsinchu Air Force Base

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A few observations on the drill at Hsinchu AFB, on day four of the 28th annual Han Kuang series of military exercises I got up at 4:30am on ...
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Giving Taiwan the deterrent it needs

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High-profile US arms sales to Taiwan may have political value, but the key to ensuring stability in the Taiwan Strait lies in allowing Taiwa...

Taiwan faces balance of naval power crisis

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In the next few years, the Taiwanese navy could be down to 18 frigates/destroyers in the 3,000-plus tonnage category, from 43 during the 199...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Two more Taiwanese officials indicted for spying

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An ex-NSB officer and a former psychological warfare specialist were caught trying to pass sensitive information to Chinese intelligence Rev...
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Tibetan health minister met Chiu at DOH, discussed cooperation

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A Taiwanese official says the DOH minister greeted Tsering in passing. Tibetans report the two spent a while discussing healthcare cooperati...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

TAO’s Wang Yi in Washington for talks on Taiwan

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Wang and US officials did not discuss the recent proposal by former KMT chairman Wu Poh-hsiung of a 'one country, two areas' framewo...
Friday, April 13, 2012

Amateur hour on national security

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Yet more signs that Ma administration officials underestimate, or are not taking seriously enough, the threat posed by Chinese espionage The...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Online photos point to PRC deployment of DF-16 missiles

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What appears to be a new model of TEL could provide confirmation that China’s new medium-range ballistic missile has been deployed Images of...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

MND mum on HF-3 anti-ship missile variant

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The ministry does not comment on weapons programs, but it is well known that the military has been trying to extend the range of the missile...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

China makes steady progress in ‘smart’ ammunitions development

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Terminal-sensing projectiles are regarded as an especially promising weapon to attack the roof section of vehicles such as tanks and armored...

Chinese navy eyes major expansion

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The Chinese navy is expected to see a major transformation over the next decade China is not satisfied with a single refurbished aircraft ca...
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Taipei-based Senior Fellow China Policy Institute U Nott, ass. researcher CEFC, chief ed Taiwan Sentinel, project manager Taiwan Democracy Bulletin. M.A. War Studies Royal Military College of Canada, Int'l Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance CIHC, CX-77 (peacekeeping) Lester Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, B.A. English lit. Ex-deputy news editor Taipei Times 2006-2013, Thinking Taiwan (2014-16). Analyst at Canadian Security Intelligence Service (2003-2005). Published in/by IISS, Brookings, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Christian Science Monitor, SCMP, Globe & Mail, Maclean's, National Interest, Lowy Interpreter, The Age, Jane’s Defence Weekly, Jane’s Intelligence Review, Jane’s Intelligence Weekly, Jane’s Navy International, Jane’s International Defence Review, the Ottawa Citizen, China Brief, CounterPunch, FrontLine Security, Strategic Vision, Asia Today International, The News Lens and The Diplomat. I was the 2012 recipient of the award for Outstanding Journalism from the Chen Wen-chen Memorial Foundation. I have appeared on BBC, CBC, CNN, VOA, RTI and Al-Jazeera. I use a Nikon D7100 camera. Follow me on Twitter @jmichaelcole1
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