FORMER WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL DAVID STOCKMAN WRITES – Most of the Donald’s tweets amount to street brawling with his political enemies, but occasionally one of them slices through Imperial Washington’s sanctimonious cant. Indeed, Monday evening’s 140 characters of solid cut right to the bone: The Amazon Washington Post fabricated the…
Marshall Cavendish Asia International has announced 14 July as the official publication date, in Asia, for ‘Yo-Yo Diplomacy: American Columnist Tom Plate Tracks the Ups-and-Downs of the China-U.S. Relationship.” Author Plate is Loyola Marymount University’s Distinguished Scholar of Asian and Pacific Studies and is founder and editor in chief of…
TOKYO (courtesy of Kyodo News) − Veteran journalist Fumio Matsuo, a former Kyodo News correspondent, received the 2017 Japan National Press Club Award on Monday for his efforts in calling on U.S. and Japanese leaders to pay respective visits to Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor in symbolic acts of postwar reconciliation.…
TOM PLATE WRITES – International relations gets advertised and promoted by international-relations theorists as it were insanely complicated. But simply saying so doesn’t make it so. Sometimes it is all quite simple, and not in the least insane. For those who live in a neighborhood of nations with those allegedly…
COLUMNIST TOM PLATE WRITES — There is a famously funny but technically accurate saying to the effect that even a broken clock is right twice a day. For some reason – don’t know why … – this adage comes to mind in looking at Donald J. Trump’s emerging foreign policy.…
TOM PLATE WRITES – 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. The reason for bringing this up has to do with our currently besieged…
ELIZABETH SOELISTIO WRITES – As one of the fastest growing internet users among its Southeast Asian neighbors, Indonesians never fail to surprise the world with their use of social media. This goes especially for the first presidential vlog of Indonesia’s President, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. On February 4, President Jokowi, one…
LAMIYA SHABBIR WRITES — On February 23, President Donald Trump issued a series of memos after millions of protesters rejected the Trump administration’s initial executive orders regarding immigration enforcement and public safety. Trump’s travel ban, originally issued on January 27 and virtually banning all visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries…
Los Angeles – His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General for the last ten years (2007-2016), and the esteemed East-West Center in Hawaii, founded in 1960, will be honored at the annual gala awards dinner of the Pacific Century Institute later this month in Los Angeles. Ban, who stepped down…
ADRIAN NARAYAN WRITES— In the wake of countless protests that broke out across the United States in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration this past Friday,the timing of the Asia Society Southern California’s special conference on Monday Jan. 23 is almost magical. So please consider attending (details below) Asia…
SABRINA VERDUZCO WRITES – In an historic rebuff, President Park Geun-hye has been hit with impeachment. In an overwhelming vote South Korea’s National Assembly has voted to do just that. Now a Constitutional Court is to rule on that legislative action, while a caretaker president moves into the Blue House…
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] NO DRONING ON: At an informal but delightfully intense LMU book-salon seminar, faculty and Asia Media International staffers took up the complex and timely issue of drone warfare, while toasting the new book ‘Preventive Force, Drones, Targeted Killing, and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare’ (New…
RYAN URBAN WRITES – We need to remember this: The mass shooting in Orlando was one of the deadliest in U.S. history. The horrific mass shooting was an act of home-grown terrorism, committed by an even more sick and twisted character. And the tragedy is that something like it bodes to…
ALEXIS CRUZ WRITES – Here we go again – another dilemma of foreign journalists arrested for trying to report on migrant workers. This time, police arrest Danish journalist Niels Borchert Holm and his crew who planned to film a documentary about the country’s preparations for the 2022 World Cup. Police…
FORMER BRITISH DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER JOHN PRESCOTT WRITES – On Wednesday [6 July] we finally saw the Chilcot Report [the official U.K. inquiry into the origins of the British involvement in the Iraq war led by the U.S. government of George W. Bush Jr]. It was a damning indictment of…
TOM PLATE WRITES – The irrefutable fact of current geopolitics is that Chinese-U.S. concordance offers the greatest potential transnational force for good (or evil) on this planet. When Beijing and Washington can get together — and then can get it together — the effect can be stunning. So for this…
