More searching for mentions of Tom in English on the websites that carried the Washington Observer's Chinese interview.

No luck on the People's Daily Online, but I did find evidence of globalization: A picture of Zhang Ziyi (Chinese actress), who most recently starred in Memoirs of a Geisha (American film from a book about Japan) in Cannes (France).

As I click through, I see pictures of Wong Kar Wai and Michelle Yeoh, too.

Does that (R) after Wai's name mean he's from the Republic (Taiwan)?