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JS Online: ABC's Bob Woodruff takes a big-picture look at China and its growing global influence Wednesday at 9 in a special that moves from China to Cambodia to Angola and the United States.
Woodruff's travels for "China Inside Out," airing on Channel 12, show the dramatic distance he's traveled since a roadside bomb in Iraq almost killed him in 2006.
"I understand everything around me - that's really back to the way it was before," he says of his recovery from a head injury.
"I have what's called aphasia," he explained. "I've lost a lot of words and names. I know the people that I'm thinking about, but sometimes I can't come up with the names. And sometimes, with certain synonyms, I only have three words for those rather than the five I used to have."
A simple dictionary helps out. And, in something important to this specific project, Woodruff has retained his command of Mandarin, even though he admits it's a bit rusty.
Woodruff was a lawyer teaching law to Chinese students in Beijing when the communist regime crushed pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. He translated for CBS News and eventually moved from law into journalism.
He’s been back briefly a couple times, but this assignment gave him a long look at a changing country.
“Shanghai, it’s almost as if they’ve built Manhattan in those number of years,” he says, reminiscing about his time in the late ’80s, bicycling around Chinese cities.
“There were very few cars. Now it’s jammed with them. In Beijing alone, there’s 3 million cars.”
You can hear Inside TV & Radio’s conversation with Woodruff in the latest podcast, which should be posted today at: www.jsonline.com/links/cuprisin
Woodruff also hosts “Focus Earth,” on Discovery’s Planet Green satellite and digital cable channel. It airs at 5 p.m. Saturdays.
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Station Manager Tom Crawford says “some sort of surge” knocked the station off the air. “We’re working to get it back up. We’re not so sure when that’s going to be.
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In the meantime, he’s looking at temporary fixes.
Source: jsonline.com
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