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• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Charlie Rose, Inc.
• DVD Release Date: June 5, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001AS0NY4
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Claire Lockhart and Bob Woodruff segments, August 7, 2008

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Charlie Rose - Bob Woodruff / Clare Lockhart / Pineapple Express (August 5; 2008) (DVD)

Claire Lockhart works for an organization that deals with failed states, which she prefers to call 'failing states'. She says depending on the criteria there are between forty and sixty in the world, among which she includes Afghanistan and Iraq. These states are not providing vital services to their citizenry, including basic personal security. The conversation centers on Afghanistan and Iraq, and does not present a general picture of the problem. She says there are ten indicators of 'failed states' but does not list them for the viewers. She does mention 'leadership' as a critical factor. She also seems to put much hope in the coming Administration in Washington with the idea that it will take a very serious look at the problem. In the conversation it is clear that she is a person who has deep concern for the peoples of the respective failed states, and is devoting herself to helping them.
The Woodruff conversation focuses on a TV documentary he has just made which has to do with China's overseas' presence. In the clips shown he speaks to Chinese construction workers in Angola, to a Chinese owner of a a soybean processing plant in Brazil, and to a Cambodian girl who is connected with an eight- thousand strong Chinese language school in Cambodia. Woodruff's emphasis is on the energy and vitality of China in reaching out to the world to help secure the basic needs of its vast population. Angola is an Energy supplier, Brazil provides much soy and other food to China. Woodruff sees China's concerns as keeping the population moving forward materially. He points out that six - hundred million Chinese have moved out of Poverty in the past ten years. The enormous hunger of China is fueling many global processes, including the price of Energy, global warming. Lester Brown points out that as Chinese 'go up the food chain' they will be using more and more of the world's resources. Woodruff does not really answer Charlie Rose on the critical question of China's growing military budget and ambitions. Nor do they speak about China's human rights record, and its support of nefarious regimes. Charlie Rose closes with a question about Woodrff's health. Woodruff as a correspondent injured very seriously in Iraq who has made a remarkable recovery points to his concern for, and sense of continuing close connection with others he knows injured there.