The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Taiwan Is Losing the Spying Game

›
If President Ma Ying-jeou doesn't clean house in his military, the US could become more reluctant to sell advanced weapons to Taiwan ...
6 comments:

What is the PLA hiding underneath Hebei?

›
Many questions surround China’s nuclear policy. The construction of a 5,000km tunnel, ostensibly to shelter its nuclear arsenal, is raising ...

Knowing when to put politics aside

›
The Ma camp committed a faux pas of sorts on Sunday by insisting on talking politics as the nation braced for a powerful typhoon As a po...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Ukraine, China’s arms bazaar par excellence

›
As Moscow grows reluctant to sell China its most advanced military technology, Beijing is using Ukraine as a backdoor to acquire what it wan...
1 comment:
Friday, August 26, 2011

PRC steps up psychological warfare against Taiwan

›
Chinese espionage against Taiwan is not a new phenomenon. But growing contact between the two sides is creating new opportunities, and the C...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Senator suggests amendment could force sale of F-16s

›
Feeling he may have been outmaneuvered in a previous deal with Secretary of State Clinton, John Cornyn is upping the ante with a new proposa...
1 comment:
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

It’s a great story, so why is it being ignored?

›
It’s got treason, arms sales, politics, greed, conspiracy, and government incompetence written all over it. And Chinese-language Taiwanese m...
7 comments:

‘Apple Daily’ claims on Taiwan Strait incident stretch credulity

›
Nearly one month after reports emerged of an incident in the Taiwan Strait involving Chinese aircraft, a new article portrays the situation ...
1 comment:

Taiwan’s self-defeating behavior

›
For the sake of the longstanding US-Taiwan alliance, it is incumbent upon Taipei to answer one question at this critical juncture: Where is ...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Where is Bill Moo?

›
Despite notification by US authorities that Bill Moo was being deported to Taiwan, almost no one seems to know where, or who, he is The ...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Bill Moo’s back in town

›
The Taiwanese businessman who attempted to sell sensitive military technology to China in 2005 was deported to Taiwan this week. Where is he...
1 comment:
Thursday, August 18, 2011

No delays on Patriot systems, defense contractor says [with update from print version]

›
Although efforts to procure a fifth and sixth PAC-3 missile defense battery are ‘on track,’ Taiwan must sign the letter of authorization bef...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Ex-‘Varyag’ gets unusual command

›
China’s first aircraft carrier will fall under direct command of the Central Military Commission, the highest state military organ, maki...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Attributing blame for the F-16 fiasco

›
The KMT has put the Taiwanese military in a position of weakness, both in qualitative and quantitative terms. Was it ineptitude, or part of ...
1 comment:

Cross-strait scientific research hits a snag

›
A neurobiologist at Peking University is seeking to change more than a decade of apolitical collaboration between scientists on both sides o...
Monday, August 15, 2011

Hacking attack on DPP a potential ‘Watergate’

›
The nature of the classified information retrieved by hackers targeting the DPP underscores the KMT’s fears of losing next year’s election, ...
4 comments:

F-16C/Ds for Taiwan no go

›
No F-16C/Ds will be sold to Taiwan, though the upgrade program on its F-16A/Bs will proceed and will include AESA radar as a sweetener.  But...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Clear skies ahead for Taiwan's AIDC

›
Regardless of the outcome to the F-16 sale, Taiwan's premier aerospace company is looking forward to a busy schedule in the coming years...
2 comments:
Friday, August 12, 2011

AESA radar upgrade for F-16s in doubt

›
Although a decision by Washington not to sell Taiwan F-16C/Ds would make the release of the AESA radar more likely, in the current political...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Taiwan sends not-so-subtle signal on China’s carrier

›
CSIST and MND officials were all winks when asked to explain the unusual display, and the fact that the top research center falls under the ...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

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
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.