Power Ranking of World Leaders

Here's the new power rankings of world leaders. The last one was posted on March 26.

Rank	Leader	Country	Previous Rank
1	Xi Jiangping	China	1
2	Kim Jong-un	North Korea	5
3	Vladimir Putin	Russia	9
4	Emmanuel Macron	France	3
5	Mohammad bin Salman	Saudi Arabia	4
6	Theresa May	United Kingdom	2
7	Abdel Fattah el-Sisi	Egypt	Not Ranked
8	Moon Jae-in	South Korea	6
9	Donald Trump	United States	7
10	Paul Kagame	Rwanda	Not Ranked

1.Xi easily keeps his number one spot. In response to Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum, China has hit back hard. Xi also holds to key to solving the North Korea crisis and is increasingly taking over the US's role as the dominant power in the world as the Trump administration bungles its way through foreign policy crisis after crisis.

2. Kim has been a masterful diplomat lately. In addition to using the Olympics to show his conciliatory side, he made his first trip outside of North Korea back in March. His visit to China showed that he's not isolated, giving him strength in the proposed upcoming meeting between Kim and Trump.

3. Putin is a miracle worker. Despite a crumbling economy, Putin won the 2018 Russian president election with nearly 77% of the vote. He even had President Trump kissing the ring after the victory. It didn't hurt that he banned lead rival Alexei Navalny from running against him and stuffed the ballot boxes. Putin has managed to invade Ukraine and Georgia and influence elections in the West despite Russia's disintegrating economy. Recently, he has continued to pull NATO member Turkey towards his camp.

4. Macron is still the leader of the Western liberal order, which is good enough for fourth on this list. Along with the UK and the US, France took part in recent missile strikes against Syria after it was shown that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people yet again. Macron took the lead in the endeavor, even making tense calls with Putin and Turkish president Recep Erdogan to inform them of the strikes.

5. MBS continues to reform his country and punch above its weight intentionally against Iran. In recent news, Black Panther is coming to Saudi Arabia!

6. The strikes against Syria were not popular in the UK. With Brexit negotiations not going so well, May falls several spots this time. The memory of leading a coordinated diplomatic response against Russia's assassination of a British double agent has faded.

7. Sisi won last month's election with an unfathomable 97% of the vote. Sisi's main rival even endorsed him! Since the hope of the Arab Spring in 2011 took down the three-decades long dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak, Sisi has managed to create an even worse dictatorship. That's impressive oppressing!

8. After a successful Olympics, Moon is the adult in the North Korean crisis as Trump and Kim hurl insults at each other.

9. Trump was going to vault up the list after backing tough sanctions against Russia and standing up to the generals in Syria. Instead, he backed down in both instances and started a potentially disastrous trade war with China, so he falls on the list.

10. Rwanda has the highest percentage of women in power and a very low crime rate. Not too bad for a long time dictator who took power in the wake of a horrible genocide.