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Vladimir Putin tops Forbes 2016 list of most influential people – Donald Trump is in second place

Vladimir Putin has beaten Donald Trump to top Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s most powerful people, taking the number one spot for the third consecutive year.

The Forbes list, now in its eighth year, identifies 74 people – one for every 100 million on the planet – whose actions have the most impact across the world.

Trump’s rise to second from number 72 last year is the biggest ever on the list.

Several Trump donors are on the list as well, including Sheldon Adelson, the CEO of Las Vegas Sands, at number 72, and the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel at 73.

The British prime minister, Theresa May, is a new addition to the list at number 13, replacing her predecessor David Cameron, who was ranked at number 8 last year.

Travis Kalanick, the CEO of Uber, who drove the company to become the richest startup in history, is new at number 64, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest person on the list, at number 10.

Donald Trump effect: China mulling ‘use of force’ on Taiwan after US President-elect’s anti-Beijing comments

China is squirming and Trump hasn’t entered the White House yet. They really want to play poker against the Don and they put up the South China Sea already. This will be over quick at least.

China should be prepared to invade Taiwan after Donald Trump questions One China Policy, says state-owned newspaper

China should be prepared to take Taiwan by force, a state-run newspaper has said, following US President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial decision to break with decades of protocol and engage with Taiwan.

The President-elect provoked uproar after he spoke directly with Taiwan’s president, the first time the countries’ leaders have talked since 1979.

The controversy intensified after he indicated his administration could exploit the four-decade long “One China Policy” in future negotiations with Beijing.

The arrangement stipulates that a nation can maintain formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan or China, but not both.

“The Chinese mainland should display its resolution to recover Taiwan by force,” an editorial in the Global Times, a communist state-owned daily said.

The threat of military action was needed to maintain peace, the editorial insisted, saying: “Peace does not belong to cowards.”

“If the Chinese mainland won’t pile on more pressure over realising reunification by using force, the chance of peaceful unification will only slip away,” it added.

Donald Trump meets with Silicon Valley executives, Bill Gates in New York 

US President-elect Donald Trump has met Silicon Valley executives at his Manhattan tower to smooth over frictions after both sides made no secret of their disdain for each other during the election campaign.

The tech industry has had numerous disagreements with Mr Trump in the past – including on immigration, the trade relationship with China and digital privacy – but sources said the meeting may help both sides focus on shared priorities.

“There’s nobody like the people in this room, and anything we can do to help this go along, we’re going to do that for you,” Mr Trump told the executives gathered in a conference room on the 25th floor of Trump Tower.

Billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates also visited Trump Tower on Wednesday, but it does not appear that he was part of the meeting.

The tech luminaries, including Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and Tesla Motors’s Elon Musk, met with Mr Trump as US corporations worry about his challenges to long-established policy toward China, a key market for Silicon Valley.

A senior Chinese state planning officials told the China Daily newspaper on Wednesday that Beijing could slap a penalty on an unnamed US automaker for monopolistic behaviour, a warning that came days after Mr Trump questioned acknowledging Taiwan as part of “One China”.

China Appears to Have Installed Weapons on Artificial Islands in South China Sea, Including Anti-Air and Anti-Missile Technology. China Previously Stated it Would Not Militarize the Islands

WASHINGTON China appears to have installed weapons, including anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems, on all seven of the artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea, a U.S. think tank reported on Wednesday, citing new satellite imagery.

China has already built military length airstrips on these islands.

“These gun and probable CIWS emplacements show that Beijing is serious about defense of its artificial islands in case of an armed contingency in the South China Sea,” it said.

“Now they have all the infrastructure in place for these interlocking rings of defense and power projection.”The report said the installations would likely back up a defensive umbrella provided by a future deployment of mobile surface-to-air missile platforms like the HQ-9 system deployed to Woody Island in the Paracel Islands, farther to the north in the South China Sea.

China has said military construction on the islands will be limited to necessary defensive requirements.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, has also criticized Chinese behavior in the South China Sea while signaling he may adopt a tougher approach to China’s assertive behavior in the region than President Barack Obama.

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