The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

The Strange Case of Tom Wang, the Taiwanese Who Wants to be a CCP Member

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A Taiwan-born pro-unification student who wants to join the Chinese Communist Party may have become the latest tool in Beijing’s united fr...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

The Recall Attempt Against Huang Kuo-chang: What’s at Stake?

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Conservative Christian groups are getting closer to unseating a progressive legislator from the New Power Party due to his support for sam...
Friday, October 20, 2017

War of the Words: Why Xi Jinping's Big Speech Means Little to Taiwan

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What matters isn’t so much what Xi said in his marathon speech, but rather what actions his government takes next  China has the resolve...
Friday, October 13, 2017

Taiwan Conspicuously Absent From Peace Event in Montreal

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Repressive and authoritarian countries are all featured at an event about peace in Montreal. But Taiwan, one of the rare vibrant democraci...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Double Ten and the Narcissism of Small Differences in Taiwan

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Both Taiwan and the ROC today overlap in the fundamental values and ideas that define society. Rather than bicker over nomenclatural diffe...
Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Illiberal Forces Push Back in Taiwan

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Movements that are driven by a conservative ideology are joining hands to block various progressive efforts by the government in Taiwan. U...

Homage to Catalonia … and Taiwan

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We can admire and encourage Catalans as they aspire to build their own country. But the situation there is a false, and potentially danger...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

China Seeks Vicious Circle of Violence Through United Front Activities in Taiwan

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Violent altercations at a concert held at National Taiwan University this past weekend are a powerful reminder that China’s United Front W...
Monday, September 18, 2017

The United Nations Is Creating a Security Dilemma for Taiwan

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Taiwan remains shunned by the UN, which insists on de jure sovereignty for membership and continues to operate under a “One China” policy ...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

What Lee Ming-che’s Show Trial Tells Us

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More than anything, Beijing is using the Lee case to send a warning to Taiwan and the rest of the world that proposing political alternati...
Thursday, September 07, 2017

The U.S.-Taiwan Security Relationship in a Time of Transition

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New challenges, opportunities and uncertainty in an extremely complex environment  The 2016 elections of Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Taiwan’s Greatest Victory is Not the Medal Count

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More than a celebration of sports, the games were a rare opportunity for Taiwan to shine on the world stage. And it did that brilliantly  ...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

The Liberals’ Great Failure on Taiwan: A Response to Edward Luce

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It is grand time that liberals recognized that the defense of Taiwan is a worthy liberal enterprise, not a relic of the Cold War that is k...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Interpol Puts China Ahead of Public Safety as Taipei Readies to Host 2017 Universiade

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Once again an international institution is allowing China to create a major blind spot in the global surveillance system  “ As national...
Wednesday, August 09, 2017

Thinking Strategically About Taiwan’s Survival

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As it faces off against an increasingly assertive China, Taiwan must do everything it can to present a united front that is committed to t...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Will China's Disinformation War Destabilize Taiwan?

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If you can’t control the message, take that control away from your opponent by making sure the message gets lost  While analysts continu...
Friday, July 28, 2017

China Threatens the Very Essence of Taiwan’s Statehood

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China isn’t ready to take Taiwan by force, and its efforts to win over the Taiwanese with economic incentives have failed. Beijing’s next ...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Fake News at Work: President Tsai ‘Persecutes Religion’ in Taiwan

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Temple operators in Taiwan appear to have become the latest targets in a disinformation campaign intended to discredit the administration ...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Brawls in Taiwan’s Legislature: A Blemish, Yes, but Hardly a Way of Life

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The unfortunate scenes we have witnessed in recent days are not what parliament is all about, nor are they representative of a cherished i...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Taiwan Confirms China’s ‘Black Hand’ Behind Anti-Reform Protests

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Using ‘content farms’ and other means, Chinese elements are suspected of generating much of the disinformation that has been circulating c...
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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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