Meet the 10 world leaders to watch in 2025


These power players will have an outsize role in developments around the world. - ST ILLUSTRATION: CHNG CHOON HIONG

FROM Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to Prabowo Subianto and Vladimir Putin, these power players will have an outsize role in developments around the world. The Straits Times’ foreign bureaus outline how they could approach the new year.

SINGAPORE: Donald Trump says “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the English language. But he is not letting on how complicated the process really is.

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