The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

China’s J-31 Stealth Aircraft Takes Flight

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The J-31, right, on its maiden flight, with J-11B escort The aircraft performed a high-speed taxi run before flying for about 10 minutes...

Promoting gay rights helps Taiwan

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Participants at the LGBT parade on Saturday There are no better placed people to combat discrimination than those who have been the vict...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Planned bonus cut angers military officers, threatens morale

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Taiwanese soldiers stand at attention ‘Our family’s rightfully deserved pension bonuses have been confiscated by the government ... her ...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Taiwan’s China Spy Problem: The Chang Chih-hsin Case

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Retired navy commander Chang Chih-hsin Even with warming relations across the Taiwan Strait, Chinese intelligence collection against the...

Taiwanese pilots, crew to begin training on AH-64 'Echo' Apache in November

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An AH-64E Apache helicopter in flight The Apache 'Delta' Block III had enough significant upgrades to warrant a new designation....
Friday, October 26, 2012

Taiwanese jailed in US for illegal exports to Iran

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Susan Yeh, aka Susan Yip Among the items she and two others procured or tried to procure for Iran were underwater locator beacons and mi...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

US political ad uses wrong ‘Taiwan’ flag

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A still from Doheny's TV ad Congressional candidate Matt Doheny’s new ad snipes at Congressman Bill Owens over a visit to Taiwan las...

A chance to learn from others

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John Baird, PM Harper and Premier Wen Jiabao An Canada-China investment agreement that is close to being implemented could provide impor...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

A portrait of the artist as a victim of the Ayatollahs: A review of Salman Rushdie’ Joseph Anton

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Author Salman Rushdie Rushdie’s all-too-timely memoirs of the fatwa years are a reminder that things have grown progressively worse  ...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Russia Flexes its Atomic Muscles

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A submarine-launched missile heads for its target Angered by US plans to deploy missile defenses, Moscow puts on display its fearsome nu...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

Taiwan’s great cognitive divide

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Taiwanese cross a street in Taipei Two contesting extremes in Taiwan politics are making it impossible for a universal view to emerge, a...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The contrast across the Taiwan Strait

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People watch a water show outside Longshan Temple How Taiwanese and Chinese behave in the face of political crises is yet another sign o...
Monday, October 15, 2012

Coming To a Warzone Near You: Kamikaze Drones

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South Korea's Devil Killer UAV Look out! Defense firms are now designing killer drones that are meant to launch suicide attacks on t...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Opening Pandora’s Box: If Israel Strikes Iran, What About Hezbollah?

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Militants carry Iranian and Hezbollah flags Hezbollah, through direct strikes on Israel or terrorist attacks, could complicate Israel...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Reflections on National Day

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Dancers perform on National Day in Taipei Much as the Nationalist flag has gained new meaning, so does the day on which people celebrate...

The case against pet strollers

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A Japanese dog stroller The practice is not only ridiculous, it’s bad for the animal  By some account, the following scene has to cons...
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Monday, October 08, 2012

New Missile Rules in Asia?

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Mock missiles on display at a museum in S Korea Seoul recently announced an agreement with the US that allows it to extend the range of ...

The ‘status quo’ and the stultification of the mind

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The Presidential Office in Taipei Decades of relative stability and lack of drama in the Taiwan Strait have made it possible for ‘expert...
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Thursday, October 04, 2012

Taiwanese pilot dies in Mirage 2000 crash in France

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Two Mirage 2000 take off at an airbase in Taiwan A Taiwanese pilot died yesterday morning after his Mirage 2000-5F crashed in France  ...
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US carrier battle groups active in West Pacific

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The USS George Washington sails near Guam The presence and exercises are mostly routine, but the US Navy is definitely showing the flag ...
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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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