The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Monday, August 23, 2010

Analysis: Taiwan’s debate on submarine expansion resurfaces

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Amid mounting apprehensions surrounding the emergence of China as a major military power, defense experts continue to focus their attention ...
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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Book Review: China’s journalists find chinks in the state’s armor

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Watchdog journalism has flourished in China over the past decade as reporters and editors risk their careers and sometimes their lives to ex...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Taiwan caught in the middle as US, Japan to hold exercise near Diaoyutais

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The Yomiuri Shimbun today reported that Japan and the US were planning to hold joint naval exercise near the disputed Diaoyutai (釣魚台, Senka...

Cambodia nixes Taiwan trade office over ‘one China’

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President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) promise that China would be more amenable to Taiwan inking free-trade deals or integrating with other regiona...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Enough with words, a call to action

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The pages of this newspaper [the Taipei Times ] and other liberal publications are filled with beautiful slogans about the need to “protect”...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

We are doomed

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Car-free initiatives have become trendy in cities worldwide trying to sensitize the population to the environmental damage caused by motoriz...
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Monday, August 09, 2010

Media wars

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Officials at the US-based Freedom House on Monday [early May] denied the watchdog was angry at the Liberty Times over its coverage of a dra...
Sunday, August 08, 2010

In one fell swoop, Ma dispenses with the PRC

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Based on recent comments by President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), it would seem that the cross-strait “diplomatic truce” he initiated soon after com...
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Friday, August 06, 2010

Preserving the ROC Air Force’s rich history

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As my latest article in the Taipei Times indicates, we have good reason to worry about the ability of Taiwan’s military to ward off an inva...
Thursday, August 05, 2010

Three days is all it would take the PLA

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The latest computerized scenario carried out by the military showed that in a war with China, Taipei would be occupied by enemy forces in ju...
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

KMT makes a mockery of free media

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The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) confirmed on June 23 that Broadcasting Corporation of China (BCC) chairman Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康) — founder...
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Monday, August 02, 2010

Interview: Actor-producer brings Taiwan’s history to the big screen

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Taiwanese-American Will Tiao, producer and actor in the political thriller ‘Formosa Betrayed,’ sat down with ‘Taipei Times’ staff reporter J...
Sunday, August 01, 2010

Book Review: The great divide: Can Asia and the US work together?

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The global economic crisis, added to missteps by the administration of former president George W. Bush, widened the space between the US and...
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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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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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