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Hong Kong: AMERICANS LONGING TO GET INVOLVED, BUT U.S. NOT TO INTERVENE

by Asia Media Staff | Oct 1, 2019 | article, China, Hong Kong, Uncategorized | 0 |

ANDRE HACOBIAN WRITES—Recently, against the backdrop of escalating violence, protesters...

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...

LOS ANGELES: TWO TOP EDITORS APPOINTED TO LMU’S ASIA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL

by Asia Media Staff | Aug 11, 2019 | article, Uncategorized | 0 |

Every August Asia Media International appoints new top editors for the impending academic year....

LOS ANGELES: PRE-PUBLICATION PARTY FOR NEW BOOK ON VETERANS OF ASIAN WARS TRAPPED IN VETERANS ADMINISTRATION TREATMENT SYSTEM

by Asia Media Staff | Jul 1, 2019 | andrea plate, BOOKS, Singapore, Uncategorized | 0 |

Asia Media International’s Senior Advisory Andrea Plate celebrated a pre-launch party for...

KOREAN CONUNDRUM: IS IT TIME FOR XI JINPING TO UP HIS GAME?

by Asia Media Staff | Jun 28, 2019 | article, China, East Asia, South Korea, Uncategorized | 0 |

GUEST CONTRIBUTOR LEE HONG-KOO WRITES – Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to North Korea...

VET AND VETERAN ACTOR WES STUDI: ‘War may be hell—but peace can be a killer, too’

by Asia Media Staff | Jun 10, 2019 | article, Los Angeles, MARSHALL CAVENDISH ASIA, Uncategorized | 1 |

Actors of color have fought long and hard for cinematic breakthroughs— Sidney Poitier, the...

CHINA: THE PAINFUL PARADOX OF TIANANMEN RETROSPECTIVES

by Asia Media Staff | Jun 5, 2019 | article, China, COLUMN, Uncategorized | 0 |

TOM PLATE WRITES – This is about the downside of overwrought moralizing. For inconvenient...

CHINA-U.S. TV FACE-OFF: ‘TOO MILD, TOO SHORT, TOO RUDE’

by Asia Media Staff | May 30, 2019 | article, China, Uncategorized | 0 |

SCMP’S KINLING LO WRITES — Disappointed commenters flooded China’s social media on...

HONG KONG: SO WHEN WILL CHINA’S ‘WORLD DOMINATION TOUR’ COMMENCE?

by Tom Plate | Apr 11, 2019 | article, China, COLUMN, Uncategorized | 0 |

TOM PLATE WRITES – In coming months look for broad gripes and bright anti-red stars over the...

KUWAIT: TRAIL-BLAZING SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER CLAIMS VIDEO CAPTURE OF ‘CHEATER’

by Faisal Bin Eisa | Mar 30, 2019 | Media, middle east, Technology, Uncategorized | 0 |

FAISAL BIN ESSA WRITES — Turning her misfortune into fortune is what Rawan Bin Hussain does....

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...

THAILAND: WHY LOYALTY TO THAKSIN REMAINS SO STRONG

by Asia Media Staff | Mar 10, 2019 | article, Thailand, Uncategorized | 0 |

KHON KAEN, THAILAND — When business started to sag a year ago at the shoe factory where she...

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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 EDITORS:
Dhari Alduraibi
Senay Emmanuel

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS:
Nicole Alaverdian
Nile Brown
Emily Capouya
Diana Castillo
Samantha Clancy
Annalisa Del Vecchio
Lori Demirjian
Talin Derohanessian
Michelle Dor
Katherine Douglas
Daniela Guevara
Andre Hacobian
Jun You Hyung
Joseph Littaua
Patrick Poleshuck
Immanuel Portus
Nathan Rivas
Jessica Saucedo
Wei Wu

CURRICULUM COORDINATOR:
Ashley Flores
Michelle Nguyen

SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT:
Lamiya Shabbir

ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR:
Trisha Curry

SENIOR ADVISOR (WRITING AND EDITING):
Andrea Plate

ASIA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF ADVISORS:
Gareth C.C. Chang
Leta Hong Fincher
William Fulco, S.J.
Spencer H. Kim
Professor Kal Raustiala
Gregory F. Treverton

SENIOR EDITOR:
Clementine Todorov

ALUMNI SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS:
Ying He
Bassem Naifar

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

Emeritus Executive Senior Editor
Ben Sullivan

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