World Leaders Power Rankings

Here's the new power rankings of world leaders. The last one was posted on December 4.

Rank	Leader	Country	Previous Rank
1	Xi Jiangping	China	1
2	Vladimir Putin	Russia	2
3	Boris Johnson	United Kingdom	Not Ranked
4	Kim Jong-un	North Korea	3
5	Jacinda Ardern	Ukraine	6
6	Abiy Ahmed	Ethiopia	7
7	Nana Akufo-Addo	Ghana	Not Ranked
8	Nayib Bukele	El Salvador	Not Ranked
9	Volodymyr Zelensky	Mexico	5
10	Donald Trump	United States	Not Ranked

1. Xi worked to pass a trade deal with the U.S., but the situation with the Uighurs is deplorable. Xi was in danger of falling for the first time since he took over the top spot when American leadership flew out the door, things aren't going well for the other top contenders either.

2. Putin's man in DC has been impeached and there's an increased spotlight on Putin's war in Ukraine, so those aren't great developments for the autocrat.

3. Johnson did have a big week. His party won a big majority in the recent snap election and his Brexit plan looks to be going forward. This is an unexpectedly high moment for Johnson. We'll check back after Brexit has had time to affect the British economy.

4. Kim has been quiet recently, but he maintains his lofty position because he played U.S. president Donald Trump like a teenage boy plays with his...

5. Ardern hasn't made news in the last couple of weeks, but she had a good year standing up to racists and reforming her government.

6/. Ahmed won a Nobel Peace Prize and continues to risk his life to reform Ethiopia.

7. Nana runs a country that is one of the best in the world for female entrepreneurship, a word that I had to try to spell three times before Google could guess what I meant.

8. Bukele had a nice profile on 60 Minutes. He came across as competent and self-aware, which is not always true of presidents on the show.

9. Zelensky may inadvertently take down a U.S.-president, which gives him some inadvertent clout on the world stage. Not bad for a comedian.

10. Trump hasn't made the list in a while, because, well, things have not gone well this year for him. His foreign policy is in tatters, the Mueller Report was damning (although too few people read it for it to register as it should have), then he bullied Ukraine into trying to get dirt on a potential political opponent and got caught. And now he has been impeached. However, Trump's stock increased int he last day because of his team's proposed strategy to deal with Trump's impeachment. They are going to claim that Trump hasn't been impeached. So far, the strategy of making up they're own reality has worked pretty well, so why not try it one last time?