Trump, Putin or Xi: Who's winning the battle for world control?

Trump, Putin or Xi: Who's winning the battle for world control?

When Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin sit down at the remote Elmendorf-Richardson airbase in Alaska, they will do so as key players in an international order transformed from the eve of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. It is testimony to the shift in global geopolitics that the two presidents will be staging their initial talks in search of a peace in Ukraine in the absence of Volodymyr Zelensky – the head of the nation whose fate may be thrashed ou…