Tom Plate's Pacific Perspective columns for 2002:

Needed: A World Passion For Tolerance (December 24, 2002)

Historic Election In South Korea (December 17, 2002)

Some Dare Call It Treason (December 10, 2002)

Analyze This: Why Is Japan Such A Basket Case? (December 3, 2002)

Making A Monkey Out Of Los Angeles (November 26, 2002)

A Flex of Soft Power By Mr Microsoft Himself (November 19, 2002)

Bush Won, Saddam Lost -- What Else? (November 12, 2002)

Why The Greatest Generals Always Give Peace A Chance (November 6, 2002)

Tex-Mex Diplomacy: The Coming Show Of Political Shows (October 23, 2002)

Choppy Seas Ahead For The Good Ship Global Economy (October 16, 2002)

Looking For A Handle On The Iraq Question (October 9, 2002)

Germany Rushes In Where China Fears To Tread (October 2, 2002)

Has Japan Found Its Destiny in Koizumi? (September 18, 2002)

The Otherwise Benign Hegemon Recovers From the Shock of 9/11 (September 11, 2002)

Waging War Against Asia Stereotypes (September 4, 2002)

Crouching Asian Film Tigers to Slay Hollywood Dragon? (August 28, 2002)

Did The Devil Make President Chen Do It? (August 21, 2002)

The Hawaii-ization of Asia (August 14, 2002)

Travels With Colin (August 7, 2002)

Read All About It In China Daily (July 31, 2002)

Australia's Shrewd Mating Instincts (July 24, 2002)

When the Shoe's On the Other Foot (July 17, 2002)

From Yellow Cards to the Yellow Sea: Sunshine Policy Gets Wounded Again (July 10, 2002)

Why Papa Shouldn't Preach (July 3, 2002)

A Proud Leader Nearing the End of His Time (June 26, 2002)

The Cup Runneth Over (June 19, 2002)

Metamorphosizing Out of a Cocoon (June 12, 2002)

Wanted: A New Vision for South Asia (June 5, 2002)

A Singer, a Capitalist Leader and a Currency Raider (May 29, 2002)

The Protectionist Circus in Washington (May 22, 2002)

The Return of the Peacock Throne (May 16, 2002)

Political Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder (May 15, 2002)

From World Cup to Peninsula Peace? (May 8, 2002)

The Virtue of Keeping Mum on China-Taiwan (May 1, 2002)

The Power of Saying 'No' or Doing Absolutely Nothing (April 24, 2002)

American Culture: When the Stars Come Out to Shine -- Or Plea Bargain (April 22, 2002)

Odd Couples and Bad Practices (April 17, 2002)

How to Solve the Middle East Crisis (April 15, 2002)

Asia's Press is Getting Better -- But is it Improving Fast Enough? (April 10, 2002)

Women Who Come and Go May Almost Be as Smart as Michelangelo (April 3, 2002)

In Asia, Women Rule! (March 27, 2002)

Drawing Back from the Brink of War (March 20, 2002)

Get Ready for Yet Another China Scare (March 13, 2002)

Terrorism: 1, Hearts and Minds: 0 (March 6, 2002)

Needed: A New U.S. Self-Containment Policy (February 27, 2002)

A Modest Appraisal of Asia by Bush's National Security Advisor (February 20, 2002)

True Crusaders Never Run Out of Moral Gas (February 20, 2002)

The Bush Administration Lays Out the Three 'Cs' of its New China Policy (February 13, 2002)

Is America On An Ego Trip? (World Economic Forum, NYC: February 8, 2002)

The Crash of Civilizations, As Heard From Ground Zero (World Economic Forum, NYCFebruary 7, 2002)

The Taliban of Money Market Capitalism (World Economic Forum, NYC: February 6, 2002)

The Canary in the Asian Coal Mine (January 30, 2002)

Crony Capitalism, American Style (January 23, 2002)

The Medium is in the Message (January 16, 2002)

The Importance of Being Optimistic (January 9, 2002)