The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Taiwan Travel Act: Use it Wisely

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Recently signed into law by President Trump, the Taiwan Travel Act opens the door for high-level exchanges between Taiwanese and American ...

Taiwanese Novelist Wu Ming-yi To Lodge Protest With Man Booker Prize Over ‘Taiwan, China’ Designation

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Man Group, the hedge fund manager which sponsors the literary prize, launched a quantitative hedge fund in China last year catering to wea...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Xi Issues Stern Warning to Taiwan, Vows to Defend ‘Every Inch’ of Chinese Territory

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An emboldened President Xi had some strong words for Taiwan after President Trump signed the Taiwan Travel Act into law last week  Chine...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

The CCP is Our Adversary, Not the Chinese People

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As the CCP increasingly tries to narrow the space between party and state, and as President Xi erases the line between himself and the par...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

The Great Chinese Lure: A Matter of National Security for Taiwan

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A far greater threat to Taiwan than the PLA or pro-unification forces is the potential hollowing-out of Taiwan’s brain trust as China’s ec...
Friday, March 09, 2018

Who’s to Blame for the ‘1992 Consensus’ Impasse?

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Beijing’s intransigence, and not Taipei’s refusal to fall into a trap, is the source of instability in bilateral relations  It has becom...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

228: Trauma, Memory and the Birth of a Nation

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The 228 Massacre is sacred ground — a graveyard out of whose soil a nation emerged. And for many, it was an original sin for the Nationali...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Xi Jinping’s Power Grab Creates Systemic Instability

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Lifting the term limits for the Chinese president could increase the likelihood of a coup d’etat in China  The China-watching punditry h...
Friday, February 23, 2018

Lufthansa, British Airways Give in to Chinese Pressure, List Taiwan as Part of China

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Two more carriers now list Taiwan as part of China on their web sites as Beijing threatens fines for ‘violations’ to advertisement and cyb...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Top Chinese Military Strategist Bemoans KMT’s Lack of Commitment to Unification

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Members of the Kuomintang who visit China are ‘lying and eating and drinking’, a Chinese military strategist argues  Speaking in a recen...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Congress Is Right to Stand Up for Taiwan

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A bill that would allow exchanges between senior US and Taiwanese officials is making its way in Congress, sparking some push-back by Chin...
Friday, February 09, 2018

China Unleashes ‘Rough Power’ as Taiwan Deals with Deadly Quake

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Internet ultranationalism and political calculation are poisoning whatever ‘goodwill’ China has shown for Taiwan as it handles the afterma...
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...
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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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