The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Why China May Play Tough in the Lead-Up to Its 19th Party Conference

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The CCP party congress later this year will activate survival instincts of Communist officials in order to secure their power. Taiwan and ...
Friday, April 28, 2017

It Wasn’t Ever Going to be Easy

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Four foreign diplomats on Thursday shared their countries’ experiences with legalization of same-sex marriage with a Taiwanese audience. T...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

President Tsai Dodges Another Cross-Strait Bullet

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A Chinese activist’s attempt to defect to Taiwan earlier this week could have shaken the careful balancing act that has prevailed across t...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

TFD Hosts 2017 Community of Democracies Youth Forum

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The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy and the Permanent Secretariat of the Community of Democracies today opened the 2017 CoD Youth Forum at...

Trends in Physical Violence and Assaults on the Press

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Physical violence and denial of access to members of the press are two tactics that have been used with alarming frequency in recent month...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry Proposes High-Tech Weapon Deployments on Taiping Island

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As tensions rise in the South China Sea, Taiwan could deploy new high-tech weapons on an island it controls Due to a changing security e...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

US-China Relations after Mar-a-Lago

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Not much substance, but the two leaders agreed to a new framework for dialogue  U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart,...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Is President Tsai’s Handling of the Lee Ming-che Case Adequate?

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We shouldn’t expect the Tsai government to burst out guns blazing on the Lee case, as to do so would only spring the traps set by elements...
Thursday, April 06, 2017

Creative Ideas for Conflict Resolution in the Taiwan Strait Must be Based on Facts: A Response to Liu Yawei

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If a just solution is ever to be found to the hugely complex dispute in the Taiwan Strait, its foundations will have to rest on the facts,...
Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Can President Xi Score Points on Taiwan at Mar-a-Lago?

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The leaders of the world’s two most powerful countries will meet in Florida on April 6-7. Among the many issues they will discuss, Taiwan’...
Monday, April 03, 2017

Lee Ming-che disappearance in China causes fears among Taiwan NGOs

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Whether they are the result of new regulations in China governing foreign NGOs, the application of vague national security measures, or fa...
Monday, March 27, 2017

China’s New Terror Campaign Against Foreign Opponents

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A wave of disappearances in recent years could be part of ongoing efforts by Beijing to further insulate China from external influences  ...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Why Strengthening the Taiwan-Japan Alliance Makes Perfect Sense

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Taiwan-Japan security cooperation is not only logical; it is essential  Amid uncertainty surrounding President Donald Trump’s plans for ...

Beijing Leans on Nigeria to ‘Fully Implement’ ‘One China’ Policy, Avoid ‘Two Chinas’

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The Chinese ambassador to Nigeria is calling upon Abuja to ensure the ‘full execution’ of the ‘one China’ policy  During a visit to Nige...
Monday, March 20, 2017

MND Confirms DF-16 Medium-Range Ballistic Missile Deployed Against Taiwan

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The ballistic missile threat against Taiwan just got more serious Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense today confirmed for the first ti...
Friday, March 17, 2017

Taiwan to Increase Defense Spending, Improve Military Capabilities

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With the DPP controlling the legislature, Taiwan could finally succeed in setting defense spending at 3% of GDP, something that hasn’t occ...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

The Fall Of Ma Ying-jeou

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The belief that those in power are using the court system to punish their opponents bespeaks a deep cynicism about Taiwanese politics  T...
Monday, March 13, 2017

Beijing Counts on Handful of Allies in Taiwan to Keep Propaganda Drive Alive

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With the KMT still struggling to get back on its feet and the Tsai administration not giving an inch on the ‘1992 consensus’ and ‘one Chin...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The Forgotten Showdown Between China and America

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This week marks the 21st anniversary of the Missile Crisis of 1996, when China fired missiles off the northern and southern tips of Taiwan...
Monday, March 06, 2017

Should President Tsai be More Flexible Toward China?

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Calls for punishing Taiwan due to its unwillingness to recognize the ‘1992 consensus’ have gotten louder ahead of a CCP leadership reshuff...
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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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