The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Monday, December 30, 2013

Taiwan’s courts as fast-food joints, or tools of repression? (中文 link at bottom)

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Facing growing public discontent and rising activism, the government is using the courts to silence the opposition. Now it won’t even giv...
Friday, December 27, 2013

As China rides high, a downcast Taiwan becomes more vulnerable

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China is convinced that history is on its side and that its political system is the best. What does this mean for Taiwan?  After decades...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

The extremist Christian infiltration of Taiwan (中文 link at bottom)

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Intensifying efforts to block same-sex marriage regulations and to promote chastity in Taiwan are led by a loose coalition of evangelical...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Can a China-Russia axis bankrupt the US?

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Russia and China have studied the end of the Cold War and how the US ultimately defeated the USSR by bankrupting it. They may now seek to ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The perpetrator as victim (中文 link at bottom)

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A new era of White Terror and Martial Law has descended upon Taiwan, which is preventing Christian organizations from saying what they wa...

Joining TheNewsLens, and a few clarifications about the role of the KMT in anti-same-sex-marriage movement

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Soon after “retiring” from the Taipei Times last month, I was approached by TheNewsLens , an online news startup based here in Taiwan, and...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

Cyber attacks enter fray in Taiwan same-sex marriage battle

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Once again, people who purport to stand for ‘love’ and ‘morality’ are resorting to undemocratic tactics to silence their opponents Ra...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

Taiwan showcases AH-64E Apache Guardian helicopters

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Taiwan received the first six of 30 Boeing AH-64E Apache “Guardian” attack helicopters ordered from the U.S. Military enthusiasts in Tai...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Who is behind the Happiness of the Next Generation Alliance? (中文 link at bottom)*

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Big money is, along with KMT members who all have a Christian sect in common Not long after two Chinese-language translations of my a...

So much for Human Rights Day

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Perhaps the Ma administration should spend a few NT dollars re-educating its officials on Democracy and Human Rights 101 By a chilly ...
Friday, December 06, 2013

Militarization of the Arctic heats up, Russia takes the lead

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Arctic states have begun rebuilding their military forces and capabilities in order to operate in the region As the world’s attention is...
Monday, December 02, 2013

Law-enforcement matters: the 972 protest incidents

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Saturday’s protest should have been strictly about the debate over the legalization of same-sex unions. But the repeated infractions by t...
Sunday, December 01, 2013

Taiwan Rural Front spokeswoman Frida Tsai hit by car in Miaoli

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The outspoken critic of government-sanctioned evictions and home demolitions around the nation is the latest victim in a part of the coun...
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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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