The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

PLA sets up strategic planning department

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Creation of the department formalizes what has been a longstanding and personalized ad hoc arrangement China's People's Liberation A...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Chinese academic claims South China Sea holds no ‘high seas’

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The rhetoric on the South China Sea in official Chinese media is becoming increasingly strident. But do those editorials really reflect Beij...

A new Cold War looms in East Asia

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The current dynamics in the Asia-Pacific region are making it likelier that states will engage in zero-sum behavior Australian Minister for ...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

Friend or foe? Canada is a target of Chinese espionage

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Stating the fact may be politically and economically inconvenient, but the reality remains that China has been, is, and will continue to be ...
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Thursday, November 24, 2011

It’s conspiracy season in Taiwan

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With key elections coming, wild conspiracies are starting to circulate among the public. Skepticism is in order, but this does not mean we s...
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Task force working on cross-strait CBM: source

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Officials all denied knowledge of the alleged task force, while opponents of the Ma administration warn of the risks that under him, militar...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Fear descends upon the elections

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Sources within the DPP have said that out of concern for Tsai Ing-wen’s personal safety, the presidential candidate is unlikely to campaign ...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Do we need a Canadian CIA?

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The Harper government shouldn't spend money on foreign intelligence if it doesn't plan to heed it At a time when Ottawa is instructi...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

Funding for observers allegedly delayed

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The decision has fueled speculation that the Ma administration is nervous about the outcome of the elections and does not want to lose face ...
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Strange structures in Gobi perplex China-watchers

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Experts are struggling to explain the purpose of a series of large structures in the Gobi desert, but all the evidence points towards bombin...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

‘Ditch Taiwan’ camp hits new low

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A virtual unknown somehow managed to place what can only be called a mediocre op-ed calling for the abandonment of Taiwan in the journal of ...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

New US defense body could focus on Chinese threat

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News of the new office comes as US President Obama is expected to announce the deployment of US Marines to a base in Australia The US Depart...
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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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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