Tom Plate
American journalist
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Tom Plate's Degrees
- Bachelors Political Science University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Journalism University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Gordon Plate was an American journalist, university professor and op-ed columnist. Since 1996 his continuing column on Asia - and now specifically on the U.S. China relationship - has appeared in leading newspapers across the globe, including, of late, the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, where he is now a regular overseas opinion-section contributor, from Los Angeles; and before that in The Straits Times in Singapore, The Khaleej Times out of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, The Japan Times in Tokyo, The Korea Times in South Korea, The Jakarta Post, the International Herald Tribune , and many others. He was Editor of the Editorial Pages of the Los Angeles Times from 1989 to 1995, and a L.A. Times op-ed columnist until 1999. He is now at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles as its Distinguished Scholar of Asian and Pacific Studies and in the Asian and Asian American Studies Department, in the university's Bellarmine College of Arts and Sciences. He is founder and editor-in-chief of Asia Media International , America's only website run by college students devoted entirely to Asia and the U.S. He is a Charter Member of LMU's Phi Beta Kappa chapter . Since 2017 he has served as a board member and Vice President of the Pacific Century Institute, a track-two 'building bridges' nonprofit based in Los Angeles, with branch offices in East Asia. Currently, he is in the pre-production phase of launching an Asia Media International subsidiary: Asia Media/Pacific Century Institute Press.
Tom Plate's Published Works
Published Works
- Commissioner : a view from the top of American law enforcement (1977) (25)
- Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew: Citizen Singapore: How to Build a Nation (2010) (17)
- Secret Police: The Inside Story of a Network of Terror (1981) (9)
- Conversations With Mahathir Mohamad Doctor M: Operation Malaysia (2011) (2)
- Conversations with Thaksin: From Exile to Deliverance: Thailand's Populist Tycoon Tells His Story (2011) (1)
- Fostering a global public sphere in real time: transpacific Skype seminars as a teaching strategy with implications for citizenship and identity (2020) (1)
- In the Middle of the Future: Tom Plate on Asia: Contemporary History Through a Newspaper Column: Benchmarks on the Road to the 21st Century (2013) (0)
- Asian Tigers May Slay Hollywood Dragon (2002) (0)
- IDA Mathematician Dismissed. (1968) (0)
- Houston MSC: Community with a Space Complex. (1969) (0)
- Leaders with Many Traits but a Singular Purpose: Lee Kuan Yew and Mahathir Mohamad (2011) (0)
- Yo-Yo Diplomacy (2017) (0)
- South Like North? North Like South? The Great Korean Flap (2004) (0)
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