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Trump, Putin or Xi: Who really runs the world?

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May 21, 2026

In quick succession, China’s Xi Jinping hosts two of the world’s most influential leaders: first Donald Trump, now Vladimir Putin. Is Beijing emerging as the new center of global power? Our guests: Mareike Ohlberg (German Marshall Fund); Bernhard Bartsch (Merics); Sergei Satanovskii (DW)

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Mareike Ohlberg,

she’s a senior fellow in the German Marshall Fund’s Indo-Pacific Program, where she leads the Stockholm China Forum.

 

 

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Bernhard Bartsch,

he's  the Director of External Relations at the Mercator Institute for China Studies.

 

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Sergei Satanovskii,

he's DW correspondent in Riga. That's where DW's Moscow team has been based since it was banned from Russia.

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