Articles by Tom Plate

A charm offensive utterly without charm

Between a Chinese bid for an American oil company and Rumsfeld's anti-ballistic missile system, the US policy on China is a bit mixed up
Published on: 6/8/2005
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From Deep Throat to Deep Detention: A tale of two journalists

Famed Watergate reporter Bob Woodward and detained China reporter Ching Cheong are in the news for different reasons, but might have some things in common
Published on: 6/2/2005
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Odd couple -- or fatal attraction?

Uncertainty surrounds the future relationship between China and the US
Published on: 5/31/2005
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Losing our grip on the human-rights issue

Now, more and more, the world believes that Washington might do the human-rights talk, but it doesn’t much walk the walk
Published on: 5/26/2005
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Spending Chinese currency on North Korea

The two big problems this recently globalized country faces are actually related
Published on: 5/24/2005
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From Stem to Stern: The New Asian Techno-Charge

Smart toilets and even smarter cell phones make ancient Asia a technological wonderland
Published on: 5/20/2005
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A story that wasn't true actually tells a true story

Serious flaws in the US foreign-policy in the Muslim and Arab world are being lost in the crusade to quarantine Newsweek
Published on: 5/17/2005
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Choose your enemies carefully

In US-China relations, it takes two to tango, but it also takes two to tangle
Published on: 5/13/2005
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How to Engineer a Diplomatic Fiasco

The United States has been outmaneuvered by Pyongyang and China is left to sort through the mess
Published on: 5/11/2005
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No war before 2008? There’s two good reasons why

Every year that goes by, it seems, gets better and better for Beijing -- as long as there’s no war
Published on: 5/5/2005
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The man who knew too much -- is now dead

The assasination of the famed Sri Lankan Tamil journalist casts a shadow on hopes for peace
Published on: 5/3/2005
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Toward a Global Citizenship: The role of China and Japan

Tension in East Asia reduces hope that the inspired idea of greater Asian political integration will take hold
Published on: 4/29/2005
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Vietnam after three decades of change

Thirty years after the United States' final pull-out from Saigon, economic reforms make Vietnam one of the world's fastest-growing economies even as pieces of 'old' Vietnam are still in action
Published on: 4/27/2005
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Is China really as bad as all that?


Published on: 4/22/2005
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With All Due Apologies. . .


Published on: 4/20/2005
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If this mogul is worried, perhaps you should be too!


Published on: 4/14/2005
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Is Asia moving forward or backward?


Published on: 4/12/2005
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The Israeli spymaster who's not afraid to be bold


Published on: 4/8/2005
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Political Hara-Kiri: The danger of keeping Japan in its place


Published on: 4/5/2005
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With the US in disarray, Asia needs to get its financial act together


Published on: 4/1/2005
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Will Japan also get a rise out of China’s rise?


Published on: 3/29/2005
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The Hunt for the Red Kim?


Published on: 3/28/2005
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Japan Apologetic: Prisoner of the past?


Published on: 3/24/2005
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I just don’t understand it -- do you?


Published on: 3/19/2005
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Being Nice to Rice


Published on: 3/15/2005
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