The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Saturday, February 26, 2011

RFA on edge as VOA heads for the block

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While all the attention has focused on the likely cuts at the VOA Chinese service, Radio Free Asia, which is expected to fill the vacuum lef...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Megaports Initiative installations completed at Kaohsiung Harbor

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More than 90 percent of global commerce is transported through the maritime shipping network via cargo containers, with about 500 million tw...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Taiwan shakes hands with the devil

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Whatever approach is taken, helping democratize China cannot be accomplished by ignoring the transgressions of the Chinese Communist Party P...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

VOA Chinese service employees furious as end looms

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The atmosphere at the VOA Chinese service was not altogether positive prior to the announcement earlier this month of the likely cessation o...
Friday, February 18, 2011

AIT confirms US role in major spy investigation

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While Taiwan, with Washington’s help, conducts a probe in the nation’s worst spying scandal in 50 years, a source said the damage to the Tai...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

New alliance targeting CCP ‘villains’

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Among the more than 11,000 Chinese Communist Party officials appearing on a blacklist for their human right violations is Liaoning Governor ...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Ex-NSC official warns on ‘overreaction’ to spy case

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As Beijing continues its zero-sum game with Taiwan, a former adviser to President Ma had one prescription for Taipei: do nothing A former Na...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Egypt is a false analogy for Taiwan

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Not only do the conditions for an uprising as experienced by Egypt in recent weeks do not obtain in Taiwan, but going down that road would e...
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Monday, February 14, 2011

Ball in Taiwan’s camp on missile defense, analyst says

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All the pieces for the air defense puzzle are there. Will the Ma administration take the final step to ensure success by 2015? Despite the a...

Canadian Society looks to new era in Taiwan

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Amid efforts by the Canadian government to encourage closer business relations with Taiwan, the Canadian Society in Taiwan is reinventing it...
Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Treason in high office

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I had promised myself that this week — my first time off since October 2009 — I would stay away from the computer as much as possible and tr...
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Tuesday, February 08, 2011

A dangerous precedent

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With the deportation to China of 14 Taiwanese suspects by the Philippine government, we are seeing the emergence of extraordinary rendition ...
Thursday, February 03, 2011

Taiwan condemns ‘totalitarian’ China over ‘spy’ detention

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Chinese prosecutors allege that James Sun was recruited by the Military Intelligence Bureau to steal secrets from China. By the time Chinese...
Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Australian ‘spy’ in harsh detention

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A new case involving a man accused of spying in China for Taiwanese intelligence is sparking fury among Australian lawmakers and at the Taiw...
Tuesday, February 01, 2011

A tale of greed and bad governance

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In terms of wealth per capita, Taiwan remains far ahead of China and certainly does not need help from across the Taiwan Strait to deal with...
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China is a ‘big brother’ indeed

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For the Chinese Communist Party, even unrest in places as far away as Egypt is seen as a threat to its hold on Zhongnanhai Critics of Chines...
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Monday, January 31, 2011

Talks on ECFA submission ongoing: MOEA

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After weeks of asking the Straits Exchange Foundation for updates on the submission of the ECFA to the WTO, the Bureau of Foreign Trade fina...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Sea power with Chinese characteristics

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In Red Star Over the Pacific , Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes examine China’s navy and how it is influenced by Mao Zedon g ... and  a 1...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

National defense on the cheap

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If Taiwan did not face a determined opponent like China, its armed forces would probably be adequate. But in the face of a rising and still ...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Beans are spilled — ECFA is political

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Studies show that in the past decade, Taiwan trade with Asia performed as well as, and in some cases better than, countries that signed vari...
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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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