The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

A Taiwan Plan for the Next U.S. President

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How to shore up U.S. interests without sparking war  Like the rest of the world, Taiwan’s twenty-three million people will look on with ...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Should Mao Enter the Building?

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Two scheduled concerts in Australia honoring Chairman Mao have sparked calls for boycotts. Let them sing and dance and spin all they want ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

The Tsai Administration Needs to Stop Stalling on Marriage Equality

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For years the DPP blamed the KMT for stalled efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in Taiwan. Now in control of both the executive and leg...

Hong Kong No Longer Has Autonomy on Immigration

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In the current environment of uncertainty in Hong Kong, controls over who comes in and who goes out will be used more frequently as an ins...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Rebuild the Dapu Pharmacy

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As the Tsai administration mulls updating Taiwan’s antiquated laws on land expropriation, one demolished building serves as a powerful sym...

Patience, Patience on UN Bid

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Taiwan’s inability to join the U.N. under a proper name and as a full member is preposterous. But those are that cards that history has de...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

A Conversation With National Endowment for Democracy President Carl Gershman

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‘Accountability means elections, an independent media that can watch over, a judiciary, and an active, mobilized civil society, which is w...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

China Uses Thousands of Chinese Teachers to Combat Uighur ‘Separatism’

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Beijing appears to be accelerating education programs designed to dilute the ethno-linguistic bond that gives Uighurs and Tibetans their d...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Watchdog Accuses HK, Taiwan Media of Complicity in China’s Show Trials

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Through ‘confessions’ and TV trials, the CCP is seeking to discredit human rights activists and lawyers. Sadly, some media outlets in Taiw...
Monday, August 15, 2016

There's a Vaccine Against China's United Front Tactics

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As long as Taiwan’s democratic institutions remain healthy, China’s multifaceted propaganda efforts against it won’t find the oxygen they ...

Ex-SEF Chairman Lin Join-sane’s Foundation Could Be Conduit for PRC Political Warfare

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It seemed innocuous enough: a conference commemorating Sun Yat-sen’s 150th anniversary. But look at the sponsors from the Chinese side and...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

China's Permanent Conflict Strategy Is A Stroke of Genius

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Permanent conflict in alternating areas, not war, best suits Beijing’s interests  Tokyo lodged a series of protests over the weekend reg...
Monday, August 08, 2016

Pokémon Go and the Death of Reality

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When funeral homes start offering discounts for people who die because of a mobile game, we know there’s a problem with our society  I s...
Sunday, August 07, 2016

‘One China’ or Air Safety?

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Taiwan’s allies, formal and tacit, must come forward as they did with the WHA and support Taiwan’s effort to participate at ICAO, no matte...
Saturday, August 06, 2016

The Hostess

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It was the small silver chain, hidden amid various sundries, that brought back the memories of an incident I had long ago erased from my ...
Wednesday, August 03, 2016

After Taiwanese Artists, South Koreans Are Now the Targets of China’s Wrath

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Little by little, Beijing is creating a Reich Culture Chamber with Chinese characteristics  Forget the Chinese military’s new aircraft, ...
Tuesday, August 02, 2016

Video Accuses Joshua Wong, Sunflower Movement, Chinese Rights Activists of Being Foreign Agents

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Shared by the Supreme People’s Court and the Communist Youth League, a video accuses pro-democracy activists of being in the pay of foreig...

China Opens Large Fishing Port to 'Safeguard' South China Sea Claims

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A new port facility in Hainan could serve as a base for China’s ‘maritime militias’ in the disputed South China Sea  China on Monday off...
Monday, August 01, 2016

Tsai Gets Passing Grade for Apology to Taiwan’s Aborigines

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President Tsai’s apology to the nation’s Aborigines went better than expected. But that was the easy part: now the real work begins  It ...
Friday, July 29, 2016

Due to ‘Safety Concerns’, Chinese Dance Competition Cancels HK Venue, Shifts to Taiwan

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Various pro-CCP groups have been protesting outside Macpherson Stadium in Mong Kok District since July 20, prompting management to cancel ...
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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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