The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Taiwan Executes 5 Death Row Inmates as Political Crisis Deepens

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The execution of two brothers based on evidence provided by China creates a worrying precedent for cross-strait judicial cooperation  Ta...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Taiwan Rocked by Anti-Nuclear Protests

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Anti-nuclear protesters have taken to the streets of Taipei to demand the end of atomic energy on the island  Less than a month after th...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Thugs come out on Taipei’s East Side (中文 link at bottom)

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Crew working for the Farglory Group at the site of the Taipei Dome are ripping beautiful trees around the area and turning to goons to sc...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

To buy or not to buy? A dilemma for Taiwan’s Navy

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Instead of wasting precious defense budgets on rather useless and highly vulnerable surface combatants, Taiwan’s military should focus on ...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Corcuff: Negotiate, or face revolutionaries

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In a guest post, Professor Stéphane Corcuff warns that a refusal by the government to listen to the demands of civil society could plant ...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Here we go again

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A day after the Sunflower Movement vacated the legislature, thousands of people we back outside the building, this time to protest police...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Sunflowers end occupation of Taiwan’s legislature

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'We are fighting a war against a state apparatus with massive resources, an authoritarian stranglehold on the executive and legislativ...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Sunflowers in Springtime: Taiwan’s crisis and the end of an era in cross-strait cooperation

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The long-term impact of the Sunflower Movement has yet to be fully understood. But one thing is clear: it will likely have changed inter...
Wednesday, April 09, 2014

In defense of the Sunflower Movement (中文 link at bottom)

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Musings on the definitions of democracy, rule of law, and why student leaders would be prisoners of conscience if they were incarcerated f...

Sunflower Movement leaders could get years in jail

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A decision to slap harsh sentences on the leadership would almost certainly spark a new round of social unrest. Will a government known f...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Disgraced racist pro-unification hater gets a new job

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Kuo Kuan-ying, who was fired from his government job in 2009 for hate speech against Taiwanese has been given a new job with the ‘Taiwan ...
Monday, April 07, 2014

Radio interview on This is Hell about the Sunflower Movement

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The only ‘training camp’ that they’ve had was the streets of Taipei over the past two years, when they were protesting a number of issues ...
Saturday, April 05, 2014

To understand the world, you must engage it

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One of the largest diplomatic missions in Taiwan is also one of the least curious about what’s going on here Yesterday I wrote about...
Friday, April 04, 2014

Debunking the myths about Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement

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If foreign media and experts had been doing their job, they would known that the movement behind the occupation of the legislature is a lo...

Gangsters ‘just passing through’

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Double standards over a protest organized by a wanted pro-unification criminal once again raise questions about government complicity ...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Say goodbye to ‘peaceful unification’

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The successful occupation of the legislature shows that peaceful unification is a pipe dream. A counter-protest today made that all the mo...
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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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