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Tom Plate
Lessons from the Alaska summit: both the US and China must rethink their diplomacy
- Beijing’s diplomacy vis-à-vis the US too often sounds like a broken record. A dynamic, mostly improving China should have more to offer
- Meanwhile, American diplomats seem utterly flummoxed by Beijing, and risk aiming at old China ghosts rather than new realities
Tom Plate
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Updated: 2:31am, 23 Mar, 2021

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Tom Plate is a university professor and a veteran columnist focused on Asia and America. This Distinguished Scholar of Asian and Pacific Studies at Loyola Marymount University has orchestrated live interactive seminars with major universities across Asia, as part of the LMU’s path-finding Asia Media International Centre. He is also the author of 13 books, including the bestsellers “Confessions of an American Media Man” (2007), four volumes in the “Giants of Asia” series, and three In the 'Tom Plate on Asia' book series. He is vice-president of the Pacific Century Institute, in Los Angeles.