How a Trump-Putin-Xi world resembles the one envisioned in Orwell's 1984

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John Authers
Bloomberg Aug 16, 2025, 18:37 IST IST

The present world order resembles one envisioned in the classic. The US, Russia and China trying to consolidate power, while countries like India might yet take different sides.

Vladimir

Putin

’s encounter with Donald

Trump

in Anchorage summons bad memories of past summits in Munich or Yalta, in which the destiny of smaller Eastern European nations was decided by greater powers without their participation. But a fictional model from the postwar era seems more prophetic.
George Orwell’s 1984, written in 1948, tells of a world divided into three great powers. They are:

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