World Leaders Power Ranking

 Here's the new power rankings of world leaders. The last one was posted on June 23.

Rank	Leader	Country	Previous Rank
1	Jacinda Ardern	New Zealand	1
2	Xi Jianping	China	3
3	Katrin Jakobsdottir	Iceland	5
4	Nguyen Phu Trong	Vietnam	7
5	Lee Hsien Loong	Singapore	Not Ranked
6	Tsai Ing-wen	Taiwan	Not Ranked
7	Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani	Qatar	Not Ranked
8	Haitham bin Tariq	Oman	Not Ranked
9	Boris Johnson	United Kingdom	Not Ranked
10	Ilham Aliyev	Armenia	Not Ranked

1. New Zealand, led by Ardern continues to be the class in dealing with the coronavirus among other issues.

2. Xi's horrible handling of the virus has put virtually the entire world in this mess, but the Chinese seem to have gotten a handle on it within their country, which is not something other powers can say.

3. Iceland, a hot tourist attraction, has also done a phenomenal job combatting the virus throughout.

4. Vietnam is another country that continues to do well against the virus.

5. Singpaore got credit at the outset, suffered some setbacks, but has has corrected course.

6. In a reversal of previous policy, Taiwan will be included on this list if for no other reason than to rankle and roil China. Taiwan had done better fighting the virus than has China.

7. Qatar has done a better job fighting the virus than some regional rivals such as UAE.

8. Haitham bin Tariq took over in January, so his time as emir has been consumed by coronavirus and Oman has done better than most.

9. The UK has not done a good job thus far, but they seem to be first to distribute a vaccine, so that counts for something.

10. Aliyev seems like a curious choice, because his country hasn't fought the virus or Azerbaijan very well. Despite losing the battle to Azerbaijan, though, Armenia is winning the covid war. Azerbaijan has seen a huge spike in cases since the war while daily cases are declining in Armenia. A silver lining for Armenia.