The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Ma’s hedging strategy wants it all, sows confusion

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President Ma Ying-jeou The Ma administration had better improve its messaging soon, or the delicate balancing act, too rife with contrad...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Coast Guard games off the Diaoyutai/Senkaku islands

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The CGA's 500-tonne Hualien coastal patrol ship Despite approaching Japan-Taiwan talks on fisheries issues, some Taiwanese continue ...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

Diaoyutai backdrop?

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The Diaoyutais belong to us, the patch reads Nationalism expresses itself in different forms amid territorial disputes  While the seri...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Visit to Hualien Air Force Base; F-16 basics

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On day two of its pre-Lunar New Year series of exercises, the Ministry of National Defense took a group of reporters — this writer include...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Taiwanese Navy holds exercise; unveils new minesweepers

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A number of vessels from the Tsuoying Naval Base, plus an aircraft and a helicopter, participated in an exercise off Greater Kaohsiung  ...

Recalls are a risky non-policy

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Protesters express their anger at the president on Jan. 13 The DPP is perfectly justified in mobilizing against the Ma administration, b...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The war of words escalates in East Asia

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Japanese protest over the Senkaku dispute By allowing the situation to spiral downwards, politicians create an environment that becomes ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Taiwanese cannot afford (or, A second manifesto)

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A student unfurls a banner at a Jan. 1 vigil The perpetuation of the ‘inherited’ system of face and conformity must stop, as the downwar...

When China killed Hollywood magic

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On the set of the Iron Man 3 movie in China Chinese censors and Western compliance are combining to kill the very essence of the moviema...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Lasers: Asia’s coming 'sci-fi' arms race

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Rheinmetall Defence's laser system It might be a few years still before laser beams become fully operational, but after decades of r...

China to issue new official map of ‘full’ territory

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Chinese protesters rip a Japanese flag at a protest The chief editor says the new map will be very significant in enhancing Chinese peop...

Book review: Bruce Jacobs’ Democratizing Taiwan

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Taiwanese students hold an all-night protest on Jan. 1 An important and accessible addition to a relatively small body of literature tha...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Japan, China Scramble Military Jets in East China Sea

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A Japanese F-15 on the tarmac Things are getting from bad to worse in the East China Sea. Military aircraft are getting involved, and th...

Interview: Su Tseng-chang casts light on DPP’s perspective ahead of Jan. 13 ‘Fury’ protest [updated]

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DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang on Thursday In a wide-ranging interview, we talked about Taiwanese identity, engaging China, sovereignty dis...
Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Japan Explores War Scenarios with China

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Japanese and US warships perform maneuvers at sea A third scenario involving war with China projects a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in 202...

MIB told to stop sending agents to China

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Taiwanese soldiers stand on guard The National Security Bureau has also reportedly been instructed to draw down operations abroad Offi...

Old tactics on Chinese media failing

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Copies of the Southern Weekly at a newsstand in China Traditional ways of liberalizing the Chinese media are clearly failing. Reciprocit...
Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Chinese protest over news censorship, Taiwanese follow developments closely

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Taiwanese student leader Lin Fei-fan on Nov. 29 As a crisis over censorship at a liberal daily leads to unprecedented protests in China,...
Thursday, January 03, 2013

China’s maritime surveillance fleet adds muscle, receives decommissioned destroyers

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A CMS ship is shadowed by the Japanese Coast Guard The addition of refurbished warships to China’s civilian maritime patrol agencies ris...
Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Freedom calls for persistence

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The Liberty Square main gate on Jan. 1, 2013 How quickly people forget that the freedoms they enjoy in Taiwan today are the direct resul...
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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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