Evan Osnos is the Beijing bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune. He recently won the Asia Society's Osborn Elliott Prize for distibguished journalism for a series of articles about China's Great Grab, subtitled 'how China's exploding appetite for natural resources is reshaping the world.
Below is a segment from the Colbert Report in which Stephen Colbert interviews Osnos about how America consumer demand for cheap cashmere is causing an explosion in goat populations in northwestern China, which in turn has caused soil erosion and huge clouds of dust which get blown across the Pacific.
Below is another interview with Osnos by someone from the Asia Society. Osnos talks about the state of foreign correspondence and explains some of the background behind his series of articles.
The China's Great Grab stories are:
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Aug 22 2007, 02:42 AM
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