The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Friday, April 29, 2011

Tsai Ing-wen wins DPP primary

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Democratic Progressive Party Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) won the party’s primary on Wednesday, meaning she will be the facing off against...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Chinese media publishes photos of J-15 fighter

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Days after Chinese Web sites reported the test-flight of a fifth-generation J-18 carrier-based aircraft, state media released pictures of th...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Hedging against a (Chinese) rainy day

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China’s banking sector, weighed down by billions of dollars in non-performing loans used to finance massive insfrastructure projects, is a t...
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Friday, April 22, 2011

Taiwan gives US$500,000 to ally Gambia’s military

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The Taiwanese embassy in Banjul, Gambia, has donated US$500,000 toward renovation and rehabilitation work for soldiers’ residences at the Yu...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Presidential Office explains timing of documents probe

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The Presidential Office broke its silence on a joint letter criticizing the Ma administration over the timing of a probe into 36,000 missing...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Chinese activists facing tough times

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While in the past, allegations of corruption against Chen Shui-bian were used to discredit DPP members, it now looks like the Chen tar baby ...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

A case against combining the elections

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Merging the presidential and legislative elections would save the nation about NT$470mn; a 3 percent pay raise for public servants would imp...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Chinese aircraft carrier nears completion

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Once its radar and missile systems are installed, China’s first aircraft carrier will be part traditional carrier, and part Aegis-type missi...
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Rule of law or rule by law?

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The Ma Ying-jeou administration is sounding more and more like Beijing as it tries to defend a series of moves by the judiciary targeting of...
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Beijing cancels annual inter-university debates on 1911 revolution

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Uneasy with the idea of university students meeting on weekends to discuss democracy and revolution, China requested that an annual series o...
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Saturday, April 09, 2011

CCP news articles seep into Taiwanese paper

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An official in charge of cross-strait affairs at the GIO said the insert could be an attempt by China to circumvent screening of print conte...
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Friday, April 08, 2011

Canadian firm to provide P-3C simulators

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A Canadian maker of simulators for civilian and military aviation was awarded a contract to design trainers for the 12 P-3C marine patrol ai...
Wednesday, April 06, 2011

China’s grand missile bargain in the making

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The modernization of China’s ballistic missile arsenal would easily offset the partial removal of short-range missiles that Beijing will lik...
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Taipower’s ‘dirty’ nuclear plants raise concerns

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‘Most nuclear plants are more akin to a surgical center, very neat, regulated and clean. Taipower plants are more like the back room of a lo...
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The transience of ‘friendship’ with the CCP

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With every prominent dissident it arrests, Beijing shows us how those who are extraneous to the CCP can be dispensed with in the blink of an...
Monday, April 04, 2011

Taiwan faces prospect of non-credible fighter capability within decade

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No new fighter aircraft on the way, upgrades on new ones delayed, and hesitancy on the part of the US government to include more advanced ra...
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Sunday, April 03, 2011

Former president Lee Teng-hui had ‘secret’ message for Richard Armitage

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The outspoken former president had a few things he wanted to share with Richard Armitage, but he felt uncomfortable doing so in the presence...
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Friday, April 01, 2011

US arms sales creating ‘vicious circle’

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Political considerations associated with US arms sales to Taiwan are forcing Washington, Taipei and Beijing to make bad policy decisions, a ...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Strait spying: China’s intelligence strategy towards Taiwan

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Since President Ma Ying-jeou launched his policy of détente with China, the assumption has been that Beijing would reduce its military and i...

Experts question NSB’s missile scoop

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Whether the DF-16 is the real deal, a variant of an existing missile or a medium-range ballistic missile known to US intelligence is more th...
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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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