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Taiwan’s pivotal location off the China coast and between Northeast and Southeast Asia has served a variety of strategic purposes for regional powers both now and historically. It's proved to be as important for New Zealand writer and publisher John Ross.
John has spent more than 30 years living in and reporting on Asia. His solo travels have taken him to destinations including Papua New Guinea, Mongolia, and Myanmar, where he wrote dispatches on the Karen insurgency, embedded with the people.
Since moving to Taiwan in 1994, he has authored books and co-founded Camphor Press, the island’s leading publisher of English-language books on Taiwanese and East Asian politics and history.
He also co-hosts the popular podcast Formosa Files which tells stories from the history of Formosa (Taiwan) from c.1600 to 2000 C.E.
