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Tom Plate's Yo-Yo Diplomacy is a marvel of clarity and balance on a subject that is complex and contentious. - William Overholt, Senior Fellow, Harvard Asia Center The great insight of Yo-Yo Diplomacy is seeing the world as the Chinese see it, not solely as we do. The book's great charm is that it does so in a way and with an optimism about the future that makes one think that the future need not be combative and could be cooperative. In that way, Plate is unique among America's China watchers. - Dr. Greg Treverton, Chairman, U.S. National Intelligence Council (2014-16) I love the opening snippets of the book in short bursts; the 'suzerainty' vs. 'sovereignty' is brilliant. - Nathan Gardels, Editor in Chief, World Post, Huffington Post Yo-Yo Diplomacy starts with an eloquent and learned, but very readable, cris de coeur for a new approach to scholarship and journalism on China -- one that leaves prejudices behind and tries to see the world as it is, in all its complexity and paradox. - Barry Sanders, Counsel, LA Olympics/Latham & Watkins partner The strength, and lasting value of this book, comes in the extended introduction that is honest and open about the difficult task of honoring truth as Professor Plate sees it, while still admitting the mystery that remains unresolved. It was humble in the correct sense of that word. - Dr. Michael Genovese, President, Global Policy Institute, Loyola Marymount University You really are an unusual voice amongst American media in your stance. Please do more to shout it from the rooftops. - Dr. Jennifer Ramos, co-editor of Preventive Force: Drones, Targeted Killing, and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare--various

Tom Plate's Yo-Yo Diplomacy is a marvel of clarity and balance on a subject that is complex and contentious. - William Overholt, Senior Fellow, Harvard Asia Center The great insight of Yo-Yo Diplomacy is seeing the world as the Chinese see it, not solely as we do. The book's great charm is that it does so in a way and with an optimism about the future that makes one think that the future need not be combative and could be cooperative. In that way, Plate is unique among America's China watchers. - Dr. Greg Treverton, Chairman, U.S. National Intelligence Council (2014-16) I love the opening snippets of the book in short bursts; the 'suzerainty' vs. 'sovereignty' is brilliant. - Nathan Gardels, Editor in Chief, World Post, Huffington Post Yo-Yo Diplomacy starts with an eloquent and learned, but very readable, cris de coeur for a new approach to scholarship and journalism on China -- one that leaves prejudices behind and tries to see the world as it is, in all its complexity and paradox. - Barry Sanders, Counsel, LA Olympics/Latham & Watkins partner The strength, and lasting value of this book, comes in the extended introduction that is honest and open about the difficult task of honoring truth as Professor Plate sees it, while still admitting the mystery that remains unresolved. It was humble in the correct sense of that word. - Dr. Michael Genovese, President, Global Policy Institute, Loyola Marymount University You really are an unusual voice amongst American media in your stance. Please do more to shout it from the rooftops. - Dr. Jennifer Ramos, co-editor of Preventive Force: Drones, Targeted Killing, and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare--Various Media studies professor and writer Tom Plate has been observing the vicissitudes in US-China relations from his perch in Los Angeles, looking for an Archimedean point on one of the most important bilateral relationships of the 21st century. Yo-Yo Diplomacy brings together his bimonthly columns for the South China Morning Post, wrestling with the full range of cultural, political and economic challenges and opportunities in Sino-US relations. ... The relentless empathy, the effort to see the relationship from both sides of the Pacific, gives Plate a distinctive voice. ... Unsurprisingly, Yo-Yo Diplomacy concludes on an unnerving note with columns on the challenge to US-China relations represented by the 2017 North Korean nuclear-missile crisis. Yet Plate's fundamental optimism about the capacity for Chinese and Americans to achieve trust and co-operation shines through, even on topics as dark as Kim Jong Un and his nukes. --John Delury, Associate Professor of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul (https: //globalasia.org/bbs/board.php?bo_table=articles&wr_id=9232)--John Delury Always in Flux: Sino-US Relations

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Tom Plate is a university professor, a veteran columnist focused on Asia and America, and an educational innovator. A Los Angeles resident, this full-time Clinical Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Asian and Pacific Studies at Loyola Marymount University has orchestrated live interactive seminars with major universities across Asia, as part of LMU’s path-finding Asia Media International Center. He teaches courses on the United Nations, and on Asia and on its media, and is the author of 13 books, including the bestsellers Confessions of an American Media Man (2007) and four volumes in the `Giants of Asia’ series; and The Fine Art of the Political Interview (2015), all published by Marshall Cavendish Editions. Born in New York, he was educated at Amherst College, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, and Princeton University, where he was awarded his professional degree in public and international affairs. He has received a number of major journalistic recognitions, including from the American Society of Newspaper Editors its annual Deadline Writing Award.

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