Hail to the most powerful man in the world, about time too

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Hu is the man!

Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, has been named the most powerful person on Earth knocking Barack Obama off the top spot.

The annual list, compiled by Forbes, the business magazine, places David Cameron, the British prime minister, at seven, behind Angela Merkel, the German chancellor in the list of 68.

Forbes explained that those on the list had been chosen “because, in various ways, they bend the world to their will”.

King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud of Saudi Arabia came in third behind Mr Jintao and Mr Obama, while Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister was fourth, ahead of Dmitry Medvedev, who only came in at 12.

Pope Benedict XVI was in fifth place, while the rest of the top 10 was rounded off by Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, Sonia Gandhi, the Indian president, and Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Mr Gates finished ahead of Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, who was in 17th place.

The list, another blow to the US president, cited his party’s poor performance in the midterm elections.

“Obama’s Democrats suffered a mighty blow in US midterm elections, with the president decisively losing support of the House of Representatives, and barely holding onto the Senate. It’s quite a comedown for last year’s most powerful person, who after enacting widespread reforms in his first two years in office will be hard-pressed to implement his agenda in the next two.”

China recently surpassed Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy. Credible estimates have China poised to overtake US as world’s largest economy in 25 years.

 

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Please note that although China had suppressed Japan as the world second largest economy, its people are mostly living under 3rd world conditions with very low spending power. Wealth centered only on certain elite group unlike Japan, where the population had better spending power. It will take at least another decade for China to catch up.

 

[cass888]

Ben Bernanke is more powerful than Obama, Hu and Putin combined.

Hu is the man!

 

[KennyMGM]

Please note that although China had suppressed Japan as the world second largest economy, its people are mostly living under 3rd world conditions with very low spending power. Wealth centered only on certain elite group unlike Japan, where the population had better spending power. It will take at least another decade for China to catch up.

last time Breznev, the commie chief of USSR was said to be
most powerful man. Before that it was Mao.
All of them vanish into history dust bin.

Communist party men never can be powerful.
they are the weakest.
can end up under house arrest somehow.
or worse still firing squad. L:ike that Romanian chief.

learn history man.