The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Friday, July 19, 2013

Russia Delays India’s 5th-Gen. Fighter Program

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A Russian T-50 prototype during a test More delays for the Indian Air Force's perspective multi-role fighter According to news rep...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

A visit to the White Wolf’s Unionist Party campaign office

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Ex-gangster Chang An-le is back in Taiwan and he has political ambitions, a campaign office, and a political tract  Ever since his retur...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Think again, mister — Taiwan isn’t actually ‘small’

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Bruce Jacobs speaks to the TFCC in Taipei Size is a state of mind, and Taiwan has long been the victim of an inability to truly acknow...

Soldier’s death is a wake-up call

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Taiwanese soldiers during Han Kuang 29 on Penghu Hung’s death should be an occasion to take a serious look at the conditions under which...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Sex change causes stir over legality of marriage

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A participant at the LGBT parade in Taipei last year 'In the eyes of government officials, gender is far more important than the val...
Friday, July 12, 2013

It’s military drill season in the East China Sea

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PLAN officers at attention on the Type 051C Shenyang All the elements of tit-for-tat exercises by the principal countries are present th...
Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Taiwan’s all-volunteer military: vision or nightmare?

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A soldier aims his rifle at Huadong Taiwan is trying to shift to an all-volunteer force. Problems lie ahead  As the young soldiers lin...

Chinese arrogance hits new heights

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Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei, the latest victim China cannot help itself, even when the obvious result is self-defeating  History is repl...
Thursday, July 04, 2013

Anger rises over the Dapu fiasco

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The inability of the Ma administration to connect with the victims of ‘modernization’ projects boggles the mind As Friday’s “deadline” a...
Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Voices for Taiwan’s future

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The battle for Taiwan’s future starts here at home, through endeavors that will ensure that honest and qualified individuals are given the...

When gangsters enter politics

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The White Wolf returns to Taiwan on Saturday Chang An-le’s return means that intimidation, if not violence, will play a greater role in ...
Tuesday, July 02, 2013

China, Russia to Hold Largest-Ever Naval Drills (Joint Sea 2013)

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A PLAN ship, aircraft, take part in a drill A total of 19 vessels, with seven from China, will take part in the exercise  The Chinese ...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

So what if Taiwan funds AEI? A response to The Nation

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Taiwanese pilots pose in front a F-16 at Hualien AFB The Nation misses the mark with an article that attempts to draw a link between fun...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

‘Apple Daily’ delivery truck set on fire in Hong Kong

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A woman reads the Apple Daily in Taiwan last year A second incident within a week targeting Jimmy Lai’s media empire in Hong Kong  raise...

Smartphones are making us dumber

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Taiwanese children experiment with smartphones The long-term physical and psychological consequences of this mass addiction to tablets a...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Where we part

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Hard at work on a hot summer day He certainly doesn’t know everything, but he knows enough about Taiwan to treat its immense complexitie...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Thugs descend on Hong Kong: Attacks on Jimmy Lai and Chen Ping

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Next Media's Jimmy Lai Worrying signs in Hong Kong that underworld figures are being used to silence Beijing’s critics Apparently ...

Two ways to look at envoys (like Wu Poh-hsiung)

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Wu, left, and Xi, right, meet in Beijing last week Are the visits to China by KMT members who no longer hold office really that worrying...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Philippines seeks air defense systems, MLRS from Israel

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The Rafael Iron Dome in action Alarmed by a dispute with China and unhappy with lack of U.S. support, the Philippines may be turning t...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Wind turbine troubles — the Yuanli case

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A group of residents in Miaoli County have banded together to halt the construction of wind turbines close to their homes. But corporate i...
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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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