Canada’s new brand of ‘terrorists’ — British MPs During my 14 weeks of training as an intelligence officer at the Canadian Security Intellig...

He said it'd be OK to kill my wife We met when I worked as an intelligence officer in Canada, part of an organization that at times risk...

Book Review: It's war in the Taiwan Strait The year is 2012. In Taiwan, a charismatic new leader named Yo Tuan occupies the Presidential...

Education key to future of China’s economic ‘miracle’ China’s economic “miracle” has pulled 200 million people out of poverty in the past tw...

‘Ultranationalists’ versus ‘terrorists’ News broke out on Tuesday that Israeli prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu, who is seeking t...

Where the f*** is ‘Chinese Taipei’ anyway? [UPDATED] As I was searching the Web for data on Taiwan’s accomplishments for a book I am working...

Not a time for a nation of sheep Since dialogue between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) was initia...

A professional military by 2014? A pipe dream On Monday, the Ministry of National Defense said that starting in 2011, the Taiwanese military...

A Beijing conveniently forgetful As I wrote in my article “A parade to end all parades,” published today in the Taipei Times , China is in a...

China’s parade to end all parades* Amid news that millions of migrant workers are roaming the Chinese countryside unemployed, a severe droug...

Book review: ‘Bob of Arabia’ explores the ills of our troubled times How does one review a book by a man who has spent the past three decade...

Some Tibetan lessons for Taiwan Next month will mark the 50th anniversary of the “liberation” of Tibet by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)...

O Canada, land of double standards In recent weeks, Ottawa has sounded as if its speeches were written by the Jewish Anti-Defamation League ...

Hamas is responsible, but … Outgoing, corruption-haunted and altogether discredited Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed on Sunday that ...

Can Obama’s shift on terror succeed? But a few days in office and already US President Barack Obama has moved to undo some of the most nefar...

Lies, lies, lies (Part II) I find it heartening to see that in recent weeks demonstrations against Israel’s military aggression in Gaza have...

Lies, lies, lies Bloomberg today carried a piece headlined “China Security Improved in 2008 With Taiwan Ties,” a headline that on its own sh...

Only fools wouldn’t see a developing pattern Not once, not twice, but on three occasions calendars meant for distribution by government offi...

CIA reviews my book — my response In the Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf, the CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence (vol. 52, No. ...

Live from Sderot Every day, as part of my job on the copy desk at a newspaper, I scan news and pictures from the global wire agencies my pap...