See Asia Media Founder Tom Plate’s latest column in the South China Morning Post. Go to: http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1862046/dinners-and-deals-different-diplomatic-styles-china-and-us
Author: Tom Plate
Tom Plate is a journalist and university
professor who has worked at Time magazine,
the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and other
media institutions.
A VERY SPECIAL JESUIT
Asia Media International Founder Tom Plate writes: The transcendent leader will offer real-life visions that rise well above the mundane without losing sight of the ground. Hunger is real; living without a roof over one’s head is real; feeling worthless as a human being is as real as it gets.…
CHINA: IS THE CHINESE DOLLAR REALLY READY FOR OPENING NIGHT?
TOM PLATE WRITES: The long march of the American campaign that ends in the crowning of our new president is well underway, as you have noticed. But I am not sure the great Chinese people should be allowed to watch. Former top U.S. national-security official Zbigniew Brzezinski, who, at a…
GUEST OPINION: WHY INDONESIA’S SECULAR SOCIETY IS ENDANGERED BY U.S. INDECISION ABOUT ‘ISIS’
Internationally acclaimed Asia analyst Derwin Pereira writes (courtesy of the Center for Strategic and International Studies): Fourteen years after al-Qaeda redrew the religious map of the world, it has receded from the global frontlines. However, it has been replaced by a stronger subversive entity, the Islamic State (IS), proving how…
LOS ANGELES: IS STRONG MAN RULE IN CHINA NECESSARILY BAD FOR THE WEST?
TOM PLATE WRITES (THIS COLUMN IS REPRINTED COURTESY OF THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST) — .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, Beijing put together for all the world to see…
HONOLULU: HOW JOURNALISTS CAN GET SOME ‘POLITICAL’ K-POP!
ASIA MEDIA WRITES: The East-West Center has announced the 2015 Korea-United States Journalists Exchange, scheduled for November 8 – 18, 2015. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Exchange. While Koreans generally have positive feelings toward the United States, Korean media are questioning the Korea-US relationship, suggesting it receives…
HONG KONG: ‘We Are Now in the Soup Together’
TOM PLATE WRITES (courtesy of the South China Morning Post): China, it seems, cannot win for losing. Exports-predator China is always ‘beating us’, bombastic billionaire businessman Donald Trump declaimed yet again on the campaign trail. But his timing on this point could have been better as last week was not…
TOKYO: THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE LATE LEE KUAN YEW
ASIA MEDIA WRITES: For all you Japanese literati types, do not miss the recent issue of GAIKO, the leading foreign policy journal of Japan, with its feature length essay on Singapore’s international-relations policy under the late, great Lee Kuan Yew. The article was translated into Japanese from the English-language original…
VIETNAM: ‘Don’t Leave Us Alone’!
ASIA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL WRITES: The recent ice-breaking visit of the top Communist Party official of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to Washington triggered a worldwide media flurry of so-called ‘expert’ commentary. Nguyen Phu Trong was the first general secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party to visit the United States and…
JAPAN: U.S. ALLY GETS NO RESPECT AT ALL
ASIA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDER TOM PLATE WRITES – So what’s in a phrase? Sometimes, it seems, a great deal, but not always what the glib phrase maker intended. History, we learn, often gets the last laugh. Our story begins years ago, you see, with a highly esteemed lady of the…
HONG KONG: NEW COLUMN ON CHINA
Asia Media Writes: The South China Morning Post, one of Asia’s premier daily newspapers, is offering readers a new regularly appearing column on China. But, surprisingly, the fortnightly ‘Insight’ essay comes from the mind and pen not of a Mainland or even Asia-based commentator but from Professor Tom Plate, founder…
THAILAND: JUNTA STILL IN FEAR OF THAKSIN
BANGKOK — The commander of the Thai Army has charged former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra with lese majeste for allegedly defaming the monarchy in a recent interview with a foreign news agency. Gen. Udomdet Sitabutr assigned an officer from the staff judge advocate corps to file the charge on his…
LMU/LOS ANGELES: ‘Interactive International’ Seminars Launched
Asia Media Writes — This past spring semester, LMU competed three live interactive seminars with Fudan University in Shanghai, as well as a media workshop with China Daily, the English language daily in Beijing with the largest circulation in the world’s most populous nation. The Fudan series was conducted in…
RECENT BOOKS, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Bill Hayton, THE SOUTH CHINA SEA (Yale University Press) – astonishing reportage, deep and thorough and convincing … Orville Schell and John DeLury, WEALTH AND POWER (Random House) – understanding China’s mentality via beautifully written portraits of leading figures through history … Sheila A.Smith, INTIMATE RIVALS (Columbia University Press) –…
CHINA: THE PROBLEM FOR THE U.S.
ASIA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL’S EDITOR IN CHIEF TOM PLATE WRITES: Dean and former UN Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani is widely regarded as one of the most pioneering and influential thinkers in world politics today. The following is an essay based on his recent Harvard lecture. It appears courtesy of The Straits Times…
FROM BBC LONDON: TONY BLAIR, KISHORE MAHBUBANI, CHRIS PATTEN, KISSINGER, PLATE AND OTHERS ON LKY
BY ASIA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL – Hear the world famous World Service’s weekend assessment of Lee Kuan Yew, who has died at 91. LISTEN AT: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02mtsbv