China's Hu tops Forbes 'most powerful' list

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Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao has topped the list of Forbes magazine's list of the world's most powerful people, besting U.S. President Barack Obama who slipped to the second spot.

The magazine said it used four criteria to define power -- whether the person has influence over a lot of people; whether they have significant wealth compared to their peers; whether they are powerful in more than one sphere and whether they actively wield power.

In that respect, said the magazine, the editors picked Hu as the most powerful man in the world. The annual list was released Wednesday evening.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/04/forbes.most.powerful/index.html

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1. Silliness, but he definitely belongs in the top 20.

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2. Hu is part of a group leadership.

I perhaps would say the the nine members of the "standing committee of the political bureau of the Communist Party of China central committee" are, collectively, number one. Our domestic politics are probably hilarious to them in some respects, because they know that the same fundamental policies will be implemented.