Category: Tom Plate

Hong Kong: QUICK COMMENTARY ON THE BEST WAY FOR U.S. TO HELP CHINA – IN ‘USA TODAY’

by Asia Media Staff | Aug 16, 2019 | article, China, Hong Kong, Tom Plate | 0 |

ASIA MEDIA WRITES – The following succinct commentary was solicited by the editors of USA...

Hong Kong: LET’S GET SOME SIMPLE FACTS STRAIGHT!

by Asia Media Staff | Aug 13, 2019 | announcement, COLUMN, Hong Kong, Tom Plate, Uncategorized | 1 |

[Pix above of US Secretary of Sate Mike Pompeo] TOM PLATE WRITES – Let’s get some simple...

AUSTRALIA AND CHINA: DESTINED TO FIGHT OVER THE ‘LITTLE CHILDREN’ OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC?

by Asia Media Staff | Jul 31, 2019 | article, Australia, China, Hong Kong, SCMP, Singapore, Tom Plate, US-China Relations | 0 |

TOM PLATE WRITES — Australia has a China problem, and it’s not clear that anyone can help it...

THE suzerainty ESCAPE: how beijing can make Hong Kong happy again

by Asia Media Staff | Jul 2, 2019 | article, China, Hong Kong, Tom Plate | 0 |

TOM PLATE WRITES – One of the most significant political events in years and potentially one...

HONG KONG: WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN BIG GOVERNMENT MAKES A BIG MISTAKE?

by Asia Media Staff | Jun 18, 2019 | article, China, Hong Kong, human rights, Tom Plate, United States, US-China Relations | 0 |

TOM PLATE WRITES — How should citizens react when Big Government does a bad thing that...

THE VATICAN: POPE FRANCIS’ SECRETARY OF STATE PIETRO PAROLIN SHOWS A DIPLOMATIC TOUCH WITH CHINA

by Asia Media Staff | May 21, 2019 | China, COLUMN, Pietro Paolin, Tom Plate, Vatican | 0 |

TOM PLATE WRITES – ‘Blessed are the peacemakers’: Trust takes a long time to build up. Worse...

LOS ANGELES: WHO REALLY UNDERSTANDS CHINA?

by Asia Media Staff | Apr 25, 2019 | article, China, Tom Plate | 0 |

TOM PLATE WRITES – Who has a good sense of China? From America, I will read anything by the...

HONG KONG: THE VERY THOUGHT OF TRUMP’S IMPEACHMENT STARTS TO SHAKE UP THE WORLD

by Asia Media Staff | Mar 13, 2019 | article, Hong Kong, Tom Plate, Uncategorized | 0 |

TOM PLATE WRITES – When President Donald J. Trump abruptly folded his diplomatic tent in...

VIETNAM: ‘THE FINE ART OF THE POLITICAL INTERVIEW’ PUBLISHED BY HOUSE OF TRE

by Asia Media Staff | Dec 13, 2018 | article, Tom Plate, Vietnam | 0 |

ASIA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL WRITES – Tre Publishing House, the noted publisher of books and...

CHINA AND THE AMERICAN ELECTION: THE SERIOUS STAKES FOR BEIJING

by Asia Media Staff | Nov 6, 2018 | article, China, Tom Plate, Trump, Uncategorized | 0 |

TOM PLATE WRITES – It is a commonplace that China’s system disdains consequential elections....

HONG KONG: A COLUMNIST’S PERSPECTIVE ON CHINA

by Asia Media Staff | Aug 31, 2018 | China, LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY, Tom Plate | 0 |

TOM PLATE WRITES – Over the decades, China’s leaders have been known to greatly respect the...

HONG KONG: SCMP COLUMNIST MAKES CASE ‘BERNSTEIN-GOULD’ PRECEDENT COULD MAKE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC IN SINO-US RELATIONS

by Asia Media Staff | Jul 4, 2018 | China, Hong Kong, SCMP, Tom Plate | 0 |

TOM PLATE WRITES – How best to make beautiful music? Loud or soft? Fast or slow? How best...

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ASIA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL is a student-driven publication of Loyola Marymount University’s Asia Media Center, part of LMU’s Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, along with the university's Dept. of Political Science and the Pacific Century Institute in Los Angeles.

MANAGING EDITOR:Dhari Alduraibi

ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR:
Senay Emmanuel

SENIOR ADVISOR (WRITING AND EDITING):
Andrea Plate

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS:
Nicole Alaverdian
Olivia Amezcua
Trisha Curry
Annalisa Del Vecchio
Ashley Flores
Antonia Horlick
Angelie Pham
Patrick Poleshuck
Immanuel Portus
Jessica Saucedo

FASHION EDITOR:
Yawen Evan Sun

SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT:
Lamiya Shabbir

SENIOR EDITOR:
Clementine Todorov

ALUMNI SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS:
Ying He
Bassem Naifar
Hiromi Ochi

EMERITUS EDITORS:
Yi Ning Wong
Aashna Malpani
Savannah Nunez
Jay Seo
Sabrina Verduzco
Mary Grace Costa
Lexi Tucker
Kelcey Lorenzo
Lexi Tucker

SPECIAL ADVISORS:
Gareth C.C. Chang
William Fulco, S.J.
Spencer H. Kim
Professor Kal Raustiala

Emeritus Executive Senior Editor
Ben Sullivan

Founder & President:
Clinical Professor Tom Plate, LMU's Distinguished Scholar of Asian and Pacific Studies