Tom Plate

Thomas Gordon Plate (May 17, 1944 – May 23, 2023) was an American journalist, university professor and op-ed columnist. Since 1996 his continuing column on Asia – and later specifically on the U.S. China relationship – appeared in leading newspapers across the globe, including the ''South China Morning Post'' in Hong Kong, where he was 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 (pre-NY Times takeover), 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. Before his death, he was 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 was 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 was a Charter Member of LMU's Phi Beta Kappa chapter (Omega of California). From 2017 he 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.

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