J. Michael Cole

on December 5, 2016

J. Michael Cole is the Taipei-based Senior Advisor on Countering Foreign Authoritarian Influence (CFAI) at the International Republican Institute (IRI) in Washington, D.C.; Senior Fellow at the Global Taiwan Institute in Washington, D.C., the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa, Canada, and the Taiwan Studies Programme at the University of Nottingham, U.K.; and Research Fellow at the Prospect Foundation in Taipei, Taiwan. Prior to moving to Taiwan in 2005, he was an intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in Ottawa. He has a Master’s degree in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada. He was co-founder and editor at large for the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy’s Taiwan Democracy Bulletin. Between 2014 and 2016, he was Editor in Chief of Thinking Taiwan, a commentary and analysis website run by Tsai Ing-wen’s Thinking Taiwan Foundation. He was Deputy News Editor at the Taipei Times from 2010 to 2013, and an editor between 2006-2010. His work has appeared in various publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia, Christian Science Monitor, Jane’s Defence Weekly, Jane’s Intelligence Review, IISS Military Balance, The Globe and Mail, and The Toronto Star. His latest book, Insidious Power: How China Undermines Global Democracy (co-edited with Szuchien Hsu), was published in 2020.

How China Could React to Trump’s Taunts: Best Case to Worst Case Scenarios

By Heather Timmons and Zheping Huang on December 5, 2016

In the wake of #TaiwanFreakout and the latest Twitter-storm, here’s a range of things Beijing could do, from the shrug-worthy to the downright terrifying

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Yu-Jie Chen

on December 4, 2016

Yu-Jie Chen is an Assistant Research Professor at Institutum Iurisprudentiae of Academia Sinica and an Affiliated Scholar at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute of NYU School of Law. Her research focuses on human rights and international law and relations, particularly in the context of China, Taiwan, and China-Taiwan relations. Her research has developed along four inter-related lines: China’s authoritarian political and legal system; China’s influence on the international human rights regime; human rights and rule of law issues in China-Taiwan relations; and Taiwan’s interaction with international human rights norms. In addition to publishing in academic journals in the U.S., Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the U.K., she also writes op-eds and takes part in public-facing discussions.

Chen received her J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from NYU School of Law. She also holds an LL.M. and LL.B. from National Chengchi University in Taiwan. She was an inaugural Global Academic Fellow at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law (2019-2020). She has had extensive experience as a research scholar at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, NYU School of Law. Prior to that, she served as a researcher and advocate for the non-governmental organization Human Rights in China. Earlier, she practiced in the Taipei-based international law firm Lee and Li.