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FROM KHALEEJ TIMES (DUBAI): ALL TRIANGLES ARE NOT ETERNATom Plate (Pacific Perspectives) / 11 February 2015Surprise White House announcement brings Asia into new focusOur intellectual (and tall) US...
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FROM JAPAN TIMES (TOKYO): LEE KUAN YEW'S PLACE IN HISTORYBY TOM PLATE, Los Angeles, 24 March -- My differences of opinion with Lee Kuan Yew (which included views about the future role of China’s...
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5 May 2015FROM THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST: HONG KONG DEMOCRACY ADVOCATES NEED A REALITY CHECKBY TOM PLATEAt least in the first phase of the 21st century, widely viewed as the Asian Century, all major...
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: GUEST COLUMN FROM THE INDIAN EXPRESS, 29 MAY 2015 ONE YEAR LATER: THE NEW BOLDNESS OF INDIA By Kishore MahbubaniWith Narendra Modi's arrival, the list of genuinely non-aligned...
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JAPAN TIMES, 9 July 2015REPAIRING JAPAN-CHINA TIES By Tom PlateLOS ANGELES – For all its problems, Japan requires no one’s sympathy. It remains a proud and successful nation, a unique and rewarding...
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JAKARTA POST/ REMEMBERING THE ALMOST UNIQUE FACE OF CHINABy Tom Plate In my work over the decades I have interviewed many political figures. But of course I have not interviewed everyone under the sun....
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AMERICA: LISTENING TO OTHERSWITH ALL TOO MUCH ATTENTION Now it is Japan’s diplomatic privacy that gets no respectBY TOM PLATELos Angeles – So what’s in a phrase? Sometimes, it seems, a great deal, but...
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SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST CHINA/US - MARKET TURMOIL NOT WITHSTANDING, STILL BOUND TOGETHERBy Tom Plate | August 25, 2015 China, it seems, cannot win for losing. Exports-predator China is always...
View ArticleFrom the SCMP: IS STRONG-MAN RULE IN CHINA NECESSARILY BAD FOR THE WEST?
TOM PLATE Los Angeles -- As Hongkongers can certainly testify, political parades in the public square or citizen protests occupying a thoroughfare can hide as much as they reveal. Last week...
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FROM THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING POSTIS THE CHINESE DOLLAR REALLY READY FOR OPENING NIGHT? TOM PLATE The long march of the American campaign that ends in the crowning of our new president is well...
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SCMP TOM PLATE CHINA COLUMN #12 NOV 9, 2015 SHOULD THE XI JINPING CHARM OFFENSIVE SOUND AN ALARM? And Why Taiwan President Ma Leaves With Such Low RatingsBY TOM PLATEChina’s new focused...
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GUN CONTROL: PEOPLE DIE WHILE THE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT DITHERS
By Tom PlateSpecial to CNN (April 2007)Adjust font size:Editor's note: Tom Plate is a former editor of the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times and the author of many books on Asia, China and the...
View ArticleTRUMP FRAMES CHINA; CARSON IMAGINES IT
TOM PLATE (in the South China Morning Post, 8 December, 2015) -- At times China and its ways are viewed from America as if little has changed. One of those times is now. This is our quadrennial U.S....
View ArticleHONG KONG: WHO SPEAKS FOR CHINA?
TOM PLATE (courtesy of the South China Morning Post)As the influential sociologist and philosopher Jurgen Habermas was right to lecture us: Conversations continuously conducted with rationality and...
View ArticleCHINA: ITS PRESIDENT AS MYSTERY MAN
TOM PLATE WRITES IN THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST - Watch this man carefully. For at least until Nov. 8, when who follows Barack Obama will be revealed, 2016’s most fascinating leader-figure will be Xi...
View ArticleHONG KONG: THE WERID CASE OF THE MISSING BOOKSELLERS
TOM PLATE WRITES IN THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST -- My biggest worry about China these days is not the mayhem of the markets and the edgy neuroticism of the mainland economy. The many reports of the...
View ArticleCHINA: THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
TOM PLATE There are more than a few financial figures in PRC circles that no longer trust Western financial advice (or most advisers) any more than they have to. There is a rich, as it were,...
View ArticleSOUTH CHINA SEA: THE DEEPER HISTORICAL CURRENTS
BY TOM PLATE They say some things have to be seen to be believed, which is probably why the sight of a jaunty Mark Zuckerberg social-networking through Tiananmen Square on a bicycle (of all...
View ArticleCHINA: BRING BACK 'COLORLESS' HUN JINTAO?
BY TOM PLATE Stumped by Trump? Horrified by Hillary? Apprehensive about America? As a therapeutic aid, dear distinguished reader, this column proposes to examine - and even appreciate - a...
View ArticleA PROPOSAL ON NORTH KOREA
US-China collaboration on N. KoreaTOM PLATE WRITES IN THE KOREA TIMES OF SEOUL - The need for China and the United States to come together in a persistently adult geopolitical two-some has never been...
View ArticleTHE MAR-A-LAGO FACTOR AND THE WEST COAST CONNECTIO
Los Angeles - There is not the slightest doubt that the emotional mentality of the West Coast versus the East Coast of the U.S. on a vital East-West issue such as the China relationship is different....
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