Asia: Solution to the Crisis?

Tom Plate
Internationally Syndicated Columnist, Author, and Founder,
Pacific Perspectives Media Center
and the UCLA Asia Pacific Media Network

Over 10 years ago, the Asian financial crisis seemed to present a picture of a junior region of the world caught in a major stumble; it could only be saved from drowning by Big Daddy America. But today it is the U.S. that is the problem, and America looks to Asia, especially China, for help to get out of the financial soup. How the financial structure of the world can change in a decade's time! Mr. Tom Plate will discuss the current troubles that the west is facing and how Asia is now seen as a source of solutions.

Syndicated columnist, former university professor, and author of six books, including "Confessions of an American Media Man" (1997, 1998) and "From Machiavelli to Plato: The Enigma of Lee Kuan Yew" (forthcoming), Tom Plate has been writing regular syndicated columns about Asia and America since 1996. Then writing in the Los Angeles Times in July 1997, he was the first U.S. journalist to have tabbed Thailand's Baht currency implosion as the trigger of the infectious Asian Financial Crisis.