The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Monday, March 31, 2014

China’s gangster proxy threatens Sunflower Movement

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Gangster-turned-politician Chang An-le now appears to be a factor in the ongoing crisis at the legislature  One thing that’s been on ...

Hundreds of thousands protest against trade pact

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Protests over a Taiwan-China trade pact continued, with up to 350,000 attending a rally outside the Presidential Office and near the legis...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Ma Ying-jeou’s point of no return

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Having underestimated the heterogenous nature of the Sunflower Movement and the resilience of its leadership, the Ma administration now fi...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

SWAT teams deployed to protect Presidential Office

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In a worrying development, anti-terrorist units have reportedly been activated to protect the seat of government ahead of a planned prote...

Does the Sunflower Movement have (or even need) an exit strategy?

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No matter how the current constitutional crisis ends, the occupation of the Legislative Yuan was a necessary warning I was having din...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

324: Police brutality or commensurate response?

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Police action on the night of March 23 to 24 to expel protesters from the Executive Yuan was marred by several acts that were not proporti...

President Ma in the tower of solitude

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Surrounded by cowards and sycophants, President Ma is now alone as civil society defies a state apparatus that no longer works Maybe ...

Pro-China ‘Opinion monitors’ at work in Taiwan crisis?

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In the war for the public opinion over the Sunflower Movement, the pro-government side has resorted to techniques that are all-too famili...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Al-Qaeda occupies the Legislative Yuan and other absurdities

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Forget conspiracies and terror training camps. The students are simply more clever than the government officials in the Ma administration...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Riot police crack down on Taiwanese protesters

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Despite the escalation by an alliance against the Cross-Strait Services Trade Agreement, riot police used disproportionate force against u...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Occupy the Legislature: Jiang Yi-huah v. Lin Fei-fan

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A ‘summit’ between the premier and a student leader didn’t yield anything, with both sides talking past each another As President Ma ...

The Sunflower Revolution continues

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Several tens of thousands of Taiwanese, young and old, continued the standoff at the legislature on Friday amid fears of a police crackdo...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Occupy the LY: Smear tactics and Taiwan’s compliant media

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Efforts by the government to discredit the occupy the legislature movement are facilitated by media that have no problem with regurgitatin...

Taiwanese occupy legislature over China pact

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More than 10,000 people have descended on the legislature to protest the government's handling of a highly controversial trade agreeme...

Is Taiwan’s military becoming too small to fight?

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With conscription ending and budgets limited, Taiwan may have to make do with a smaller defense force  As the gap in military capabiliti...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

L’Homme révolté (中文 link at bottom)

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Taiwanese are the products of an education system that militates against the spirit of revolt. While a few may develop the notion through...
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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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