The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Thursday, November 24, 2016

More than Marriage Equality, it’s a Battle Between Reason and Obscurantism

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The current mess isn’t a gentlemen’s debate on policy, where one side’s facts are weighed against those of their opponents; it is, instead...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Thousands protest as Taiwan inches closer to legalising same-sex marriage

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Opponents of same-sex marriage rallied outside the legislature as lawmakers discussed proposed amendments to the civil code Several thou...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Christians fighting same-sex marriage in Taiwan are now utterly desperate

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Gay marriage would help gangsters and other criminals, apparently Conservative Christians have been taking to the streets to stop same-s...
Wednesday, November 09, 2016

A Taiwan Defense Blueprint for the Trump Era

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Three things Taiwan can and should do now to mitigate the potentially negative repercussions of a Trump presidency  The election of Dona...

'One Country, Two Systems' Is as Good as Dead

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Interest in unification with Beijing has been dwindling. Developments in Hong Kong are the nail in the coffin  The latest round of prote...
Friday, November 04, 2016

Can Taiwan Hold Out Against China’s New Strategy?

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China ius busy trying to dismantle the U.S. security alliance in Asia. Can Taiwan weather the storm?  After years of assertiveness that ...
Tuesday, November 01, 2016

The Riddle of Hung’s ‘Peace Platform’ with China

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Can the KMT chairwoman create new facts on the ground with Beijing?  Kuomintang Chairperson Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) arrived in China this we...
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 ...
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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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