The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Conflict in the Taiwan Strait: What it Is, and What it Isn’t

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International media need to find a better term than ‘rivals’ to describe a situation in which a small democracy is fighting for its surviv...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Globalizing Taiwan’s Defense Industry

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Opportunities exist for much greater cooperation between Taiwanese defense firms and partners around the world. But before this can happen...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Beijing Ramps Up Pressure on Foreign Airlines, Firms to Respect China’s ‘Territorial Integrity’

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After Delta Air Lines and Qantas, several airlines are coming under pressure by Beijing to remove references to Taiwan as a sovereign enti...
Friday, January 12, 2018

Trump’s National Security Strategy and Taiwan’s Changing Security Environment

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Despite some positive language in the new National Security Strategy, allies like Taiwan that rely on continued U.S. support cannot afford...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Analysis: China’s New Air Routes Near Taiwan: Why Now? To What End?

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Beijing has reneged on an agreement reached with Taipei in 2015, in part to destabilize the Tsai Ing-wen administration and to show who is...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

The Taiwan Strait in 2018 – Still a Dangerous Flashpoint

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While the world’s attention is fixated on North Korea, it would be imprudent to ignore the other dangerous flashpoint in the Indo-Pacific ...
Tuesday, January 02, 2018

How can democracies counter China’s growing clout

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Canada must adjust its policies of engagement with China by building upon the knowledge that is accumulating globally  China is on a mis...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

A U.S. Attack on North Korea: Could China Retaliate Against Taiwan?

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Chinese retaliation against Taiwan amid a U.S. military move on North Korea would be an occasion for Beijing to redress two historical wou...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

New Party Officials Held for Questioning as China-Linked Spy Probe Widens

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A handful of individuals from the pro-unification New Party were taken in for questioning in a case that seems to be linked to a spy ring ...
Monday, December 18, 2017

Taiwan’s Democracy Dodges a Bullet

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The attempt to unseat Huang Kuo-chang of the New Power Party highlights troubling flaws with Taiwan’s recall laws, which could become a so...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Beijing’s Orwellian View of Taiwan is Getting Dangerous

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The often risible comments by Chinese officials about Taiwan are certainly entertaining, but they signal a dangerous malaise within the CC...
Monday, December 11, 2017

Analysis: Chinese Envoy to the U.S. Threatens War Over U.S. Navy Port Calls in Taiwan

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While it is unlikely the PLA would invade Taiwan in response to the resumption of regular U.S. Navy visits to Taiwan, Taipei and Washingto...
Saturday, December 09, 2017

Why America Should Beware a Resurgent China

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The world is witnessing a new, more assertive phase in China’s foreign engagement under President Xi Jinping  As it makes its presence f...
Friday, December 08, 2017

Making Transitional Justice Work

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Institutionalization will be key to ensure the long-term survival of the many agencies that have a role to play in transitional justice, d...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Lee Ming-che Sentencing a Warning to Others (Analysis)

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More than the unfair treatment of a man who did nothing wrong, today’s sentencing is another reminder that China has no intention of playi...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

China Bans Tour Groups to the Vatican and Palau, Two Diplomatic Allies of Taiwan

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The new directive by the central government is believed to be aimed at forcing the governments to switch diplomatic relations from Taipei ...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

We Must Push Back Before China Silences Us

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Authoritarian China has turned its sights on the intellectuals in the West who are shedding light on what the regime and its proxies are d...
Tuesday, November 07, 2017

Municipal Liaison Offices in China: A Dangerous Idea

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The mayors of Taipei and New Taipei City are exploring the possibility of setting up liaison offices in China, a plan which if implemented...
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...
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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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