The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Saturday, July 31, 2010

Why 'Formosa Betrayed' wasn't filmed in Taiwan

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Those who have already seen the movie Formosa Betrayed , which is scheduled for release in Taiwan on Friday, may have noticed that the actor...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Fugitive dissident not done trying to re-enter China

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One of China’s most wanted fugitives says he hasn’t given up trying to return to China and won’t relent in his efforts to pressure Beijing t...
Friday, July 23, 2010

PRC’s new rules could limit Chinese reports on Taiwan

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New regulations by China’s Propaganda Department on provincial and metropolitan news media could have serious implications for investigative...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Speakers nix PRC cyber warfare talk under pressure

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Experts at a private Taiwanese security company decided to pull out of a security conference in Las Vegas after coming under what was descri...
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

'Tourist' may have been guided by PRC intel

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Information has come to light that could indicate that a Chinese tourist who was caught in May last year taking photos in a restricted area ...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

China corrupts, wherever it goes

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As Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) passed through the Canadian capital late last month ahead of the G20 meeting, there was yet another exa...
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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Telling the story

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Years in the making and produced on a shoestring budget, Formosa Betrayed has already played in select theaters in the US and Canada. Start...
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Friday, July 09, 2010

Can we trust the WTO to ‘review’ the ECFA?

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During an e-mail interview with the Central News Agency (CNA) earlier this month, in which the expected benefits of the Economic Cooperation...
Thursday, July 08, 2010

CNN censors its own

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Over the years, the focus of my criticism of states that deny freedom of expression to their citizens or prevent journalists from doing thei...
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Let the blackmail begin

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The China Times editorial have of late been a gold mine for my middle-of-the-night musings on the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement ...
Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Jumping the gun on ECFA benefits

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It occurred to me on Monday night, as I was deciding which stories would go where in the paper, that all the countries, think tanks and indi...

‘Bedeviled’ by near-sightedness

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Washington Post reporter Keith Richburg (with staff writer John Pomfret and staff researchers in Beijing and Shanghai) had an irritating pi...
Sunday, July 04, 2010

Sovereignty upheld? Think again

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President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration on Tuesday was all jubilance after the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) was sig...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

China lobbying provokes freeze on US arms sales

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The president of the US-Taiwan Business Council yesterday confirmed a report in a US-based defense magazine that the US State Department had...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

The deed is done

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Jason Miks of Australian magazine The Diplomat contacted me yesterday for comment on the economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) Ta...
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Monday, June 28, 2010

No need for Taiwan FTA, Philippine minister says

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Recent comments by the Philippines’ trade and industry secretary cast doubt on the feasibility of Taiwan being able to sign free-trade agree...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

When the gulag meets capitalism with Chinese characteristics

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In the Kafkaesque world of Chinese political repression, two words stand out as epitomizing continuity and adaptation in the Chinese Communi...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

Did Kurt Vonnegut's brother ruin the 626 protest?

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What does a Canadian reporter, columnist and deputy news editor do on his one day off in Taipei? The obvious answer, if you lived in Taiwan,...
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Cross-strait ‘radicals’ and ‘hardliners’

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From the Merriam-Webster dictionary: Hard-line , adj. Definition: advocating or involving a rigidly uncompromising course of action. Radica...
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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Nuclear power plant a ‘disaster’: contractor

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The Kuosheng nuclear power plant in Wanli (萬里), Taipei County, is an “absolute disaster,” according to the head of a diving company charged ...
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J. Michael Cole 寇謐將
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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