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Two Global Superpowers, One Global Challenge

Source: Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka While the world’s attention is focussed on the leadership contest in the United States, the leadership change that will unfold in China just days after the US presidential elections has received comparatively less attention. The biggest political event in a decade for the world’s second superpower is scheduled to take place at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China which will begin on 8 November 2012. This is a remarkable coincidence in timing as the birth of new stars in the political universe,…