The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Friday, October 28, 2016

China No Longer Has a Taiwan Strategy

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Money, persuasion and coercion have all failed  For all the talk about the inevitability of the eventual “reunification” of Taiwan and C...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

President Tsai: Proceed With Marriage Equality. Now

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The electoral costs to the government of proceeding with legalizing same-sex unions in Taiwan are so low it makes no sense to delay the ma...
Friday, October 14, 2016

China’s Negative Impact on Freedom of the Press Expands Outwards

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We all know how China treats its own journalists. But what about the CCP's critics outside China? More and more, it's going after ...
Tuesday, October 04, 2016

WEF Corrects 'Error' in Annual Report, Reinstates ‘Taiwan, China’

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Beijing imposes a fiction about Taiwan and often gets its way in global institutions. But in the end, nomenclature will never change the f...
Monday, October 03, 2016

Is Double Ten a Deadline for President Tsai?

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Don’t hold your breath for a breakthrough in President Tsai’s cross-Strait policy on National Day  As Oct. 10 approaches, a growing chor...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Is the West Losing the Influence War to China?

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Like-minded coalitions of major states are increasingly unable to counter Beijing’s efforts to isolate Taiwan at international institution...
Monday, September 26, 2016

For Taiwan, the Sun Doesn’t Rise and Set with China

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Only when the international community stops looking at Taiwan through the China lens will those motivations be fully understood  Taiwan ...
Friday, September 23, 2016

ICAO Refuses to Invite Taiwan to Assembly

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The decision yet again demonstrates China's ability to coerce international institutions into making decision that go against their ve...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

SCMP the Good Little Mouthpiece

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More and more, the South China Morning Post’s editorials read as if they were drafted in Beijing. Here’s an example  Following Alibaba f...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

To Terminate or Not? Taiwan’s ‘Cloud Peak’ Medium-Range Missile Program

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A recent report by the ‘China Times’ claims Taiwan has decided to abandon efforts to develop a medium-range missile that could hit Beijing...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

China the Twelve Year Old

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For far too long we have allowed the tyrant child to determine our actions. This must stop. We must stop fearing it  Here we go again, t...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Spurned, Beijing Bypasses Taiwan’s Central Government

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Beijing is seeking to undermine the authority of Taiwan’s central government by creating bilateral dependencies and sowing division within...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Japanese Politician's Taiwan Connection Causes Storm as Party Vote Looms

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Attacked for her dual nationality, Democratic Party deputy head Renho is in a race to abandon her ROC citizenship. And did she or did she ...
Thursday, September 08, 2016

Official Blames ‘Rude’ Taiwanese for Drop in Chinese Tourism

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'We need to stop using smearing language about Chinese people, especially on the Internet’  As tour operators prepare to protest nex...
Friday, September 02, 2016

China’s Censorship Rules Reach New Level of Absurdity

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The CCP’s gradual descent into regulatory madness suggests that it is losing its grip on reality and on the people whom it seeks to contro...
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...
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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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