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Fast-Growing China: A New Crop of Leaders, New Five Year Plan
Far from threatening to overtake the US anytime soon, China is wrestling with major problems that threaten internal stability. We hear what new leadership and the latest five-year plan could mean for China itself and its relations with the rest of the world. Also, Bank of America thaws frozen foreclosures, and Insurance companies and healthcare reform.
Far from threatening to overtake the US anytime soon, China is wrestling with major problems that threaten internal stability. We hear what new leadership and the latest five-year plan could mean for China itself and its relations with the rest of the world. Also, Bank of America thaws frozen foreclosures. On Reporter's Notebook, are insurance companies already exploiting loopholes in healthcare reform? Should President Obama take action?
Banner image: A Chinese bank clerk counts a stack of one-hundred yuan notes for a customer at a bank in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on October 14, 2010. Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images