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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Sunflowers in Springtime: Taiwan’s Crisis and the End of an Era in Cross-Strait Cooperation

04.09.2014 J. Michael Cole

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...

Publication China Brief China and the Asia-Pacific

A Bump in the Road for Taiwan and Japan but Little More

11.16.2012 J. Michael Cole

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...

Publication China Brief China and the Asia-Pacific

China and Japan Turn the Screw over Island Dispute

09.21.2012 J. Michael Cole

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...

Publication China Brief China