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About Tom Plate
- Thomas Gordon Plate (born May 17, 1944) is an American journalist, university professor and op-ed columnist.
- Over the last 24 years 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 opinion-section contributor, while based in 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 (pre-NY Times total ownership), 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 2000.
- He is now at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles as its Distinguished Scholar of Asian and Pacific Studies and full-time Clinical Professor in the Asian and Asian American Department, in the university's Bellarmine College of Arts and Sciences.
- He is founder and editor-in-chief of Asia Media International (asiamedia.lmu.edu), 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 (Omega of California).
- 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 Press.
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