The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

KMT Reform? We’ll Believe It When We See It

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A former KMT spokesman argues in an influential foreign publication that the KMT is in the ‘throes of reform’. That would be wonderful, bu...
Friday, February 13, 2015

The Sky Isn’t Falling Over Taiwan

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Overly bleak pictures of Taiwan’s willingness and ability to defend its way of life are not only misleading, they play right into Beijing’...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Prison Hostage Situation in Taiwan Turns Deadly … and Political

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A botched prison break in Kaohsiung turns into a political melodrama with a tragic conclusion  A dramatic hostage-taking situation at a ...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Let 118 Sunflowers Bloom

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A total of 118 people, including Lin Fei-fan and Chen Wei-ting, will be prosecuted for the 318 and 323 occupation and a smaller incident o...
Thursday, February 05, 2015

Chinese Students Go Ballistic at Model UN Event

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Proud and nationalistic Chinese students are increasingly vocal overseas. Often, though not always, they get away with bullying others on ...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Taiwan: Between the Pivot and a Hard Place

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What role, if any, can Taiwan play in the U.S. rebalancing to Asia? And what can Taipei to do increase its chances of being given a role i...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Two Ways of Looking at a Spy

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The Zhen Xiaojiang spy network sounds like bad news for Taiwan, but the damage to national security might not be as severe as it sounds  ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Does Taiwan Need a Ko Revolution?

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Reforming the system is absolutely necessary. But what can society do if entrenched interests and status quo powers stand in the way of wh...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

The Spies Are Coming! The Spies Are Coming to Taiwan!

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Damage assessments following the busting of a spy ring must look not only to the secrets that were stolen, but also to the propaganda valu...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

破解台海前途歷史必然的迷思

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台灣與中國的統一絕非必然。事實上,它已經不再是選項 數十年來,學者和政治人物都費盡心思要為台海兩岸的死結尋求解套方式。至今提出過的一切解決方案,其核心都必定涉及「一個中國」的概念,無論用詞上作何表述。中國的智庫學者,以及台灣的藍、綠兩陣營,在這一點上挖空心思創造出各種詞彙...

Debunking the Myth of Inevitability in the Taiwan Strait

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Unification between Taiwan and China is not inevitable; in fact, it is no longer an option  For decades academics and politicians have s...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

China’s New Flight Routes Rile Taipei

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Beijing no longer has use for President Ma and therefore will not hesitate in the coming year to take what with wants without any consider...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Setting the Agenda for 2015

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The 2016 presidential elections are approaching fast, and Thinking Taiwan wants to be part of the action by providing in-depth analysis of...
Tuesday, January 06, 2015

Former Taiwanese President Chen Released on Medical Bail

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Chen Shui-bian’s temporary release could further complicate Taiwanese politics in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election  Former T...
Monday, January 05, 2015

Calm Down, Taiwan Does Not Seek War with Vietnam

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By parroting the remarks of legislators who don’t know what they are talking about, journalists are contributing to Taiwan’s problems  T...
Thursday, January 01, 2015

‘Press Areas’ Threaten to Undermine Work of Journalists

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New administrative measures unveiled by police on Jan. 1 could make it very difficult for the press to document police misdemeanor during ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

One Same-Sex Unions, the KMT Belongs in a Museum

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The KMT-led administration’s antediluvian stance on same-sex marriage is symptomatic of an apparatus that continues to reject modernity  ...
Monday, December 22, 2014

Arms Sales to Taiwan: Ending the ‘Brutal Interference’

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China is successfully cracking down on the means by which the U.S. provides military assistance to Taiwan. It’s time to change the rules o...
Friday, December 19, 2014

President Ma’s Honeymoon With Beijing Is Over: Implications for Taiwan

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Ma Ying-jeou’s fall from grace may lead Beijing to focus more of its efforts on grooming allies at the grassroots level  The vagaries of...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Were Taiwan’s nine-in-one elections a referendum on Ma’s China policy?

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What was foremost on voters’ minds on Nov. 29 was the need to elect officials who can govern with accountability and who are capable of st...
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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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