Who’s winning the race for global domination? Experts explain how three ‘super-egos’ are carving up the continents between them – leaving the UK and EU as bit-part players

On Friday, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin will finally take place in Alaska.

When the US President took out a block that stumbled to such a meeting last week, he skillfully opened the way for this diplomatic reckoning: the presence of Volodymyr Zelensky.

When asked if Putin had to meet Ukraine to give a mass with the US President, Trump said, ‘No, not.’

This is only an invitation for superpowers. Watching closely on Friday will, of course, will be the Chinese president Xi Jinping, who has more impact on Putin than Trump may want.

The course of the Ukrainian conflict will be decided in Beijing, Washington and Moscow that it has entered a new superpower age ruled by the world super ego.

Three military giants are locked in the struggle for global impact. The US, Russia and China now dominate the world with their leaders.

Our map reveals this changing balance of power and the hottest debated areas. Mavi represents the US and countries under its swing, including most Europe.

Red, Asia, Africa and South America is increasingly for China for China. And black, the Russian Federation, the dark palette falls into the pockets of Eastern Europe, North Africa and beyond.

In these three -polar world, each power has a different effect. Russia is doing this as a military, invading its democratic neighbor.

China’s power is more economical, capturing control to developing countries under the conditions of swingeing under the ‘belt and road attempt’ and then under the weight of the debt.

America has not only financial influence and military muscles, but also a soft power through fashion, music, film and fast food. His economy has been decreasing for years, but Trump is trying to rebuild it with his use of aggressive tariffs.

The situation resembles this terrible joke of Napoleon’s cartoonist James Gilray. He drew the world as a plum pudding, and British Prime Minister Pitt Genç and Napoleon carved between them.

But today there are three giant on the table. And the rest of the world is on the menu.

The dollar is still a global reserve currency, but it is less dominant than before. Trump’s re -election was marked by isolationism and public Avowal to avoid circulation in foreign conflicts. In Picture: Trump and Putin at the Apec Summit in Danang, Vietnam in 2017

Aggressive Stance for Greenland and Canada – Pete Hegseth (in the picture), who argued that the US will not overcome European security in February, asked America’s allies whether NATO had a future

UNITED STATES

The dollar is still a global reserve currency, but it is less dominant than before. Trump’s re -election was marked by isolationism and public Avowal to avoid the turmoil in foreign conflicts (although military operations in Iran and the ongoing weapons to Ukraine opposed it).

However, the aggressive stance of Greenland and Canada reported that the defense secretary Pete Hegseth would no longer overcome European security in February – asked America’s allies whether NATO had a future.

Despite the threats of Trump’s exploitation or even seizure, ‘the first’ instincts of America will cost him his friends. However, he knows that the other two superpowers cannot allow the United States to come together.

Last year, Trump accused and warned his predecessor Joe Biden by ‘combining Moscow and Beijing:’ I will have to unite them and I think I can do it. ‘

Trump’s admission that Xi expanded an official invitation shows that the momentum was built face-to-face-despite the attempt to use it uninterested. The couple was depicted on the sides of the G-20 Summit in Osaka in Japan in June 2019.

The governments of poor countries, threatened to American tariffs, are moving away from the dollar. Open alternative Chinese Renminbi or Yuan (in the picture); A yuan is currently about 10p worth about 10p

CHINESE

As Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said: ‘The world can live without America. He can’t live without China. ‘Chinese products are an indispensable part of life and reshape the Beijing planet.

The governments of poor countries, threatened to American tariffs, are moving away from the dollar. Open alternative Chinese Renminbi or Yuan; A yuan is currently about 10p.

China’s labor force is great – but a demographic time bee expects a bee, while only nine years ago, the destructive ‘a child’ policy, which ended nine years ago.

Beijing, usually in Africa and South America and is critical to produce solar panels and microchips, such as the mining of rare soil minerals, such as the corner of the future industries.

For now, at least – he did it with money rather than weapons.

China knows how to buy the effect by making ‘investment’ in the infrastructure that it can use to control customer states.

But over time, Beijing may try to get back the region he believes in rightly – at least not Taiwan, who has a implicit guarantee for the protection of the United States.

Russia’s wide and inadequate population widespread extensions have tremendous energy reserves. Countries from Brazil to India and China are still relying on them despite the sanctions imposed by the West. In Picture: Putin on August 7

Russia’s greatest export after oil and gas is not the behavior of Ukraine, but also the use of secret war and cyber attacks against rival nations and the Wagner group mercenaries. In the picture: Yevgeny Prigozhin, May 2023 Wagner Group Parenlerleri former president

Last month, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang (in the picture) boasted the opposite number in Kaja Kallas in the EU, and that the occupation of Ukraine was ‘a blessing’ for Beijing

RUSSIA

Russia’s wide and inadequate population widespread extensions have tremendous energy reserves. Countries from Brazil to India and China are still relying on them despite the sanctions imposed by the West.

However, Russia’s largest exports after oil and gas, not the behavior of Ukraine, but also the war against the rival war and cyber attacks against rival nations and the use of Wagner group mercenaries.

Ten years ago, the group rising from the ruins of the conflict in Donbas in Eastern Ukraine – now called ‘Africa Korps’ – from the civil wars in Syria to Libya, Mali and Sahel, to Sudan and other places.

Moscow has much more than strengthening his ties with Beijing. The army, in which $ 150 billion (£ 112 billion) (£ 112 billion) a year is generous, is based on Chinese imports, vital for fiber optic cables, nitroselulosa, artillery used to control the ‘unnecessary’ drones.

And China is equally beneficial from Russian aggression. Last month, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang boasted his opposite number in the EU Kaja Kallas.

• Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO’s former high allied commander Europe.

• Mark Almond is the director of the Crisis Research Institute in Oxford.