Serious Forbes: 2016 World's Most Powerful People (Mostly Asians)

[zhihau]

Notable Mentions:

Top 3
1. Vladimir Putin
2. Donald Trump
3. Angela Merkel

Top NE Asia: Xi Jinping (4th)
Top South Asia: Narendra Modi (9th)
Top Middle East: Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (16th)
Top SE Asia: Rodrigo Duterte (70th)
Top Separatist/Terrorist: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (57th)

Neat! President Duterte could do this region some good as they chair the ASEAN meeting next year.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

This proves that malays are mostly peaceful but were antagonised by immigrant communities to go amok.
This also proves that chinese are arrogant bastards ( i did not say this but the list more or less conclude it) and war monger.They deserved to be raped and pillaged by their own kind,the mongols and the japanese.

How does the list show that Chinese are arrogant?

 

[AsiaDK]

Top SE Asia: Rodrigo Duterte (70th)

Look that this chee hong's supporting crowd in Singapore

Duterte embraces woman who asked for selfie in Singapore http://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/...races-woman-who-asked-for-selfie-in-singapore

 

[ckmpd]

Look that this chee hong's supporting crowd in Singapore


Duterte embraces woman who asked for selfie in Singapore http://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/...races-woman-who-asked-for-selfie-in-singapore

Duterte is a man!

 

[greedy and cunning]

President of USA is normally No 1. Now he is not. How USA has fallen. Within the next four years. it will be:

1. Putin
2. Xi
3. Trump

no need to wait for next 4 years.
US is lumpar 1.
fact - defence budget 2016

USAss $601 billion
Russia $84.5 billion
chinks $216 billion
nihonji $41.6 billion
ah-neh $50 billion

 

[shiokalingam]

Looks like a personal vendetta against LHL spilled over to this forum. Of course under the pretext of championing Singaporeans.

tk to ckmpd otherwise this forum very quiet.

 

[syed putra]

The world's highest paid politician is not the most powerful? Not even in the top 100?

They get hidden benefits. Like the CEO share options.

 

[syed putra]

no need to wait for next 4 years.
US is lumpar 1.
fact - defence budget 2016

USAss $601 billion
Russia $84.5 billion
chinks $216 billion
nihonji $41.6 billion
ah-neh $50 billion

But a huge chunk of US defence budget goes to over budget spending such as the F22 and f35's,the new super carrier and huge spending on pay. Chinks on the other hand gets to spend their money on new equipment that costs very little in research and development as they merely copy others.

 

[frenchbriefs]

no need to wait for next 4 years.
US is lumpar 1.
fact - defence budget 2016

USAss $601 billion
Russia $84.5 billion
chinks $216 billion
nihonji $41.6 billion
ah-neh $50 billion

the only advantage USA has left is its big ass millitary,but a strong millitary depends on a strong economy,without money u have nothing.already america's debt is the biggest in the world at 19 trillion dollars and their deficit is humongous,2.4 trillion a year.unless they intend to become like russia,which has a powerful millitary while the people are poor as fuck and suffering,they will be forced to cut back on their military spending and that will be the end of that.china's economy will continue to grow while america's continue to shrink.

at the beginning of the 1980s,under deng xiao ping's open china policy,USA's share of the world economic gdp pie was 40 percent......today it has shrunk to 22 percent and falling....the white world is getting poorer and poorer relatively.