J. Michael Cole is a senior fellow at the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham, a research associate at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) in Taipei, and a senior officer at the Thinking Taiwan Foundation, where he is editor in chief of www.thinking-taiwan.com. He is a former analyst at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in Ottawa and was deputy news editor at the Taipei Times from 2010-2013. He is a regular columnist for The Diplomat and a contributor for Jane's Defence Weekly and The National Interest. His work has also appeared in the Wall...