The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Taiwan gun group joins global fight to bear arms

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The organization has a goal to see 8 million people in Taiwan own a gun and 5 million people obtain a license to carry concealed firearms Th...
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Making Taiwan an end in itself

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China has had plenty of opportunities to learn from democracies in the past decades, and yet remains authoritarian. The idea that contact wi...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

Interview: Wolfowitz praises Taiwan’s democratic legacy

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Former US deputy secretary of defense and current US-Taiwan Business Council chairman Paul Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the US invasi...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Deterrence key to curbing China, report says

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The greatest deterrent of all, the authors argue, are the historically unparalleled economic consequences that would result from a Sino-Amer...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Basic Education Act forces silence on school campuses

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Though far from desirable, regulations banning political activity on campuses ahead of elections are the result of Taiwan’s idiosyncratic hi...
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Monday, October 17, 2011

Philippines airs concerns over Taiwanese missile plan

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Washington also weighed in on Friday, cautioning all claimants to the disputed islets to avoid sparking an arms race and to resolve the disp...

Retired officers’ visits to China part of united front efforts

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Not only are retired Taiwanese generals part of the program, but China has also begun inviting former intelligence officers A new study on t...
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Friday, October 14, 2011

NTU drops ‘national’ when cooperating with China

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Aside from the name change, a list of visiting scholars at the department of humanities and social sciences shows that of the 52 foreign aca...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Antelope air defense systems on Taiping Island?

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The plan is a sound one, except that its proponent fails to mention the most belligerent and powerful protagonist in the dispute Rarely a we...
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Former US defense chief Rumsfeld lauds Taiwan

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In town to attend the Republic of China 100 celebrations, the indefatigable career government official shared his views on the challenges an...

Kurt Campbell faces heat in Beijing

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Prior to lecturing the visiting diplomat, a Chinese official seemed to indicate that Beijing did not want its expression of anger on arms sa...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

PLA Air Force denies news of advanced fighter crash

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The State Internet Information Office has ordered that the individual who published the 'fake' news and the Web site that carried it...

Beijing’s nuclear sleight of hand

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Negotiators in Washington, Moscow and at the UN should be aware that once parity approaches, Beijing could prove much less willing to abando...
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Monday, October 10, 2011

Thoughts on the ROC’s 100th

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For the good and the bad, the ROC is an intrinsic part of Taiwan’s complex history. Ignoring its impact on modern Taiwan, and vice versa, wo...
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Sunday, October 09, 2011

India claims PLA presence in Pakistan-controlled territory

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Non-military and government sources say the publication of comments by senior military officers is timed to sabotage diplomatic efforts betw...
Friday, October 07, 2011

More Chinese espionage, this time against Russia

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Analysts tend to focus on Chinese espionage against its traditional adversaries, such as the US and Taiwan. But Beijing is increasingly stea...
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Thursday, October 06, 2011

Retired USAF officials back F-16 sale

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Officials in and out of government continue to put pressure on the Obama administration to release the F-16C/Ds for Taiwan Seven senior reti...
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Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Wu Chang-yu: A classic Chinese intelligence operation

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The case of a Central Police University associate professor who was arrested for spying for China follows a pattern that is strangely famili...

China deploys HQ-16A air defence missile

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If deployed closer to Taiwan, the new medium-range, vertical launch air defense system could be used against the low-flying Hsiung Feng IIE ...

PRC delegation calls for closer media cooperation

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Just as a Chinese delegate said media exchanges should be objective, impartial, comprehensive and accurate, back in Beijing the government w...
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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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