J. Michael Cole
J. Michael Cole is a Taipei-based Senior Non-Resident Fellow with the China Policy Institute at University of Nottingham, and an Associate Researcher at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC). He recently joined the Thinking Taiwan Foundation as a Senior Staff Member.
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Articles by J. Michael Cole
Sunflowers in Springtime: Taiwan’s Crisis and the End of an Era in Cross-Strait Cooperation
With two years left in the second and last term of Ma Ying-jeou’s presidency, Taiwan has been embroiled in a political crisis since March 18 that will have serious, and...
A Bump in the Road for Taiwan and Japan but Little More
Although its voice is often ignored in the escalating spat over the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku islands in the East China Sea, Taiwan reacted with uncharacteristic bombast to the Japanese government’s purchase...
China and Japan Turn the Screw over Island Dispute
Once again Tokyo and Beijing played with fire over the disputed Diaoyu or Senkaku islets in the East China Sea, operating under the assumption that the consequent outbursts of nationalism...