China President Xi Jinping Named World's Most Powerful Person, Trump at Position Three
Forbes Magazine has named Chinese President Xi Jinping as 2018 world's most powerful person.
Jinping unseats his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who drops to number two, having been named world most powerful individual for four consecutive years; 2014-2017.
One year into his term, United States President Donald Trump has been named world's third most powerful man. At fourth place is Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, becoming world's most powerful woman.
"The de facto leader of Europe, Merkel won a hard-fought election in 2017 and created a ‘grand coalition’ with political partners," Forbes reports.
American technology entrepreneur and Amazon chief executive officer, Jeff Bezos is ranked the fifth most powerful person.
Other notable figures in the list are; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (ranked 13), United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May (14), Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (15) and Apple CEO Tim Cook (24).
Others are; Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia at position 8, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Jerome H. Powell (11) and Special Counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice, Robert Mueller (No 72). The list includes 75 people.
"There are nearly 7.5 billion humans on planet Earth, but these 75 men and women make the world turn. Forbes' annual ranking of The World's Most Powerful People identifies one person out of every 100 million whose actions mean the most," Forbes said.
Comments (19)
Wow!wow!wow wow!we will make America Great Again
Robert mueller number is wrong..He shake .
China china china china ...Shitholes.
Shitholes are aligning themselves..North Korea ,China and Japan are becoming friends AGAIN..ALL SHITHOLES NEED TO UNITE.
North Korea has support if China...Play.Since 1953 cannot end instantly.....cat and mouse game.
There is crossing line done when come to ethnicities..
Thanks to God @least some Americans are good people.
Thanks to God @least some Americans are good people.who knows..Shamba la wanyama.
The real shithole has been working extremely hard to steal Obama credentials.
If your farm has all food you need do bother neighbors farm then??
Especially worthless Shitholes land need to be left alone.
World. Will align itself .. Dummy Shithole has no clue..You harvest what you plant.
You plant hate you harvest hate. You plant love you harvest love.
Thanks John McCain. We know people who will never die.
You know deception spirit which Paul rebuked come as warmth but is cold as a freezer..All bird know when mother says it's time to fly.
Sufuria mingi uharibu ladha ya xhakula yenyewe.
I could have written as one message.....But gets people attention look every single line.
Bravo bravo China.Lets hope the white colonials countries war mongers will continue to fall.China less evil than states/Europe if u judge the history.
Mlachake your real..Cowards run with tail down.