From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Evan osnos is here. Hes a staff writer at the new yorker magazine. He was the china correspondent from 2005 to 2013. He has written a book about his experiences in a country that is undergoing rapid change and it is called age of ambition. George packer has said that evan osnos gives us 21stcentury china the way the best journalists gave us the gilded age. Im pleased to have him back at this table. Welcome. George was rather complimentary, wasnt he . He knows the gilded age. The first one and the one we are going through now so i appreciate the comment. Whys it hard to define the ambition of china . It operates on two levels. You have the national ambition, the one we see every day over here. It is the one pushing china out into the south and east china sea. It is a remarkable thing to see. The one that is harder to see, the one you see on the ground when you live in china and talk to people is the ambition in their personal live
Tourist dollars. Recordook details the government fine against General Motors. Lets begin with the continuing crisis in ukraine. Ukraine says it needs an extra 4 billion in new capital to keep its ink solvent. How did they arrive at that figure . It is the solvency of banks. s a lot of those branches are not open. They are worried about the devaluation of their currency, down about 30 this year. I think that is going to be something people will have to deal with. Ukraine is scheduled to hold president ial elections on may 25. Just what is at stake . For any are big stakes president elect, lets be honest. They have to reset relations with russia. Also looking at some of the separatist regions east of the country. Asp. The dispute over this is a big issue between the two countries. Also the dispute over gas. Whoever the president is will have to deal with these things very decisively and quickly. Ukraine depends on russia for about half of its gas, as you just alluded to. Russia raised t
My ambition is to, at some point, be able to write something truly original, to Say Something that is true that hasnt been said before. Of course, that is extremely ambitious, and i dont think i have been able to do that yet, but i have to keep that ambition, you know. I have to have something that will make me get up in the morning, and i think just doing that, just writing something that lasts longer than i have. Charlie we conclude this evening with another look at the environment from fred krupp, president of the Environmental Defense fund. What most people dont know, charlie, is the Global Warming being caused by todays emissions, half of that is being caused not by Carbon Dioxide but by the shortlived climate pollutants and, of that half, methane is twothirds of that, the most important. So it turns out that, right now, we have a tremendous opportunity to take a bite out of americas footprint on Global Warming by reducing the emissions of these methane from oil and gas. Charlie o
We try some vintage frames that are a piece of fashion history. S. We gong in on canne to the movie market where producers and directors fight for funding. Lets go to the biggest exercise in democracy ever. The long dominant Congress Party has conceded defeat. It is headed for its worst election loss. That said over to mumbai where bloomberg tv india is standing by. What is the latest on the ground . Is never over till it is really over. Emphatically, it is coming in for the bjp led National Democratic alliance. Bjp is at 326 seats. The united Progressive Alliance, on the other hand, led by the congress is at 75, as we speak. The candidate is leading by a margin of nearly 114,000 votes. [indiscernible] di tweeted that india has one. That sums up the sentiment we have been feeling. The markets rallied massively since monday when he saw some informal exit polls coming out. The outcome was opening very strong. Fernanda, what is the big hope when it comes to business . Is this an election
My ambition is to, at some point, be able to write something truly original, to Say Something that is true that hasnt been said before. Of course, that is extremely ambitious, and i dont think i have been able to do that yet, but i have to keep that ambition, you know. I have to have something that will make me get up in the morning, and i think just doing that, just writing something that lasts longer than i have. Charlie we conclude this evening with another look at the environment from fred krupp, president of the Environmental Defense fund. What most people dont know, charlie, is the Global Warming being caused by todays emissions, half of that is being caused not by Carbon Dioxide but by the shortlived climate pollutants and, of that half, methane is twothirds of that, the most important. So it turns out that, right now, we have a tremendous opportunity to take a bite out of americas footprint on Global Warming by reducing the emissions of these methane from oil and gas. Charlie o