The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Friday, October 08, 2010

Liu Xiaobo wins 2010 Nobel Peace Prize

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Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo (劉曉波) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for his defense of fundamental human rights in China. ...

Beguiled by Wen’s missile promise

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Speculation has been rife in recent months that Washington might reconsider its policy on arms sales to Taiwan if Beijing agreed to dismantl...
Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Security experts warn on China threat

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In the morning session of the International Symposium on 50 Years of US-Japan Security Alliance and the Security of Taiwan organized by the ...
Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Intelligence treason in the making

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The systematic efforts by our government, uncovered by this newspaper last week, to keep secret a visit by a top Chinese security official l...
Sunday, October 03, 2010

Is Wen Jiabao playing with fire?

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In what has been called his “boldest-ever call for liberalization,” Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (溫家寶) in late August created a bit of a stir ...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Chinese security chief’s visit kept secret

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A visit to Taiwan by Chinese Vice Minister of Public Security Chen Zhimin (陳智敏) and his delegation earlier this month was shrouded in secre...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Shameless opinion poll shenanigans

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It’s no secret that politicians often use opinion polls to support, rather than determine, policy decisions. Knowing this, the public is wel...
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Friday, September 24, 2010

Six decades of made-up politics

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Aside from the business and geopolitical imperatives that stem from the international community’s desire to interact with the People’s Repub...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Who said China must be ‘rational’?

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Data recently released by the nation’s main spy agency, the National Security Bureau (NSB), put a new dent in President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九)...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Of nukes and men

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The recent publication of a memoir by former US negotiator Jeremy Stone re-ignited a controversy last week over alleged plans under the form...
Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Sucked into the Chinese Civil War

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There is no knowing whether an editorial in the People’s Daily on Friday that for all intents and purposes removed the Chinese Nationalist P...
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Invading Taiwan through investment

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The Financial Supervisory Commission’s rejection last week of a bid by a Hong Kong consortium to acquire Nan Shan Life Insurance Co was a we...
Thursday, September 02, 2010

Our soldiers deserve better

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The Ministry of National Defense last week took a group of reporters on a tour of the nation’s three military services, an event meant to hi...
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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...
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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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