Meet the World’s Most Powerful Man

Xi Jinping and his successor; Xi Jinping.

President of China Xi Jinping arrives for the second day of the Summit at the Sandton International Convention Centre. The BRICS Leaders’ Summit is convened annually with discussions representing spheres of political and socio-economic coordination, in which member countries have identified several business opportunities, economic complementarities and areas of cooperation. July 26, 2018. [Photo: GCIS]

2020, perhaps more so than any other year in our modern history, was filled with winners, losers, and sharp contrasts between the two. Those who managed to win, won big; the losers lost bigger.

Amazon won, big. Small businesses lost, bigger. Donald Trump lost and Democrats won, albeit at a considerable cost and not quite as big as they’d hoped, all things considered.

Western economies lost, big. Democratic governments aren’t having an easy time flipping the economic switch back on, either. Even getting kids back in school, a crucial economic step that has been happening all over the world without major catastrophe for six months or more, isn’t proving easy.

Just today, Washington Governor Jay Inslee issued an emergency proclamation order requiring schools to return to in-person learning, which says a great deal. His office also felt the need to write a lengthy post to Medium explaining the decision in painstaking detail, which says even more.

As Western economies, and those who run them, have lost their collective will to function sensibly, one winner to eclipse all others, even Amazon, has emerged.

The undisputed champion of the world in 2020, 2021, and beyond, is the Chinese Communist Party and its all-powerful…