What were the most globally impactful decisions of 2022?
We surveyed 100 journalists from around the world to find out.
In a special episode, and the second iteration of our end of year show, One Decision host Julia Macfarlane is joined in London by The Economist's Anne McElvoy, Semafor's Prashant Rao, and Bloomberg's Maria Tadeo to discuss the most important decisions of 2022.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade
The Chinese Communist Party's decision to grant Xi Jinping a third term
The decision for major world countries to set aside most COVID-19 restrictions
The Iranian Morality Polices' decision to allegedly kill Mahsa Amini and the subsequent protests
U.S. and UK's decision to ban Russian oil, followed by the EU's decision to cut demand drastically
Elon Musk's decision to buy Twitter
Brazilian voters' decision to elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president
NATO's decision for Sweden and Finland to apply for NATO membership
The decision at COP27 to create a losses and damages fund
U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's decision to visit Taiwan
Liz Truss' decision to present a mini-budget and the subsequent economic fallout
U.S. decision to grant immunity to Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the case brought against him for journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death
OPEC Plus' decision to reduce oil output
Donald Trump's decision to run for another term as US president
Italian voters' decision to elect Giorgia Meloni as prime minister
The decision of countries to potentially leave the Commonwealth following Queen Elizabeth's death
Colombian voters' decision to elect the country's first leftist government in modern history
Israeli voters' decision to reelect Benjamin Netanyahu
Filipino voters' decision to elect Bongbong Marcos
Meet the Panelists
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Anne McElvoy
Executive Editor at The Economist
"If you want to change something in China, it's been done many times before, you simply put a new set of words around it. It does seem that he has difficulty with that specifically, on COVID. And it may be that it's because he's seen as so much the author of that decision."
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Prashant Rao
Senior Editor for Semafor
“The zero-COVID decision was possibly, I think, almost certainly the most important thing that any person in China did this year because it impacted all of us. It changed supply chains, it impacted economies.”
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Maria Tadeo
Europe Correspondent for Bloomberg Television
“I think ultimately, with the case of Ukraine, what Vladimir Putin figured out is that they're not going to put boots on the ground, they're not going to go well in and to help Ukraine and that's essentially kind of what happened then he miscalculated on the Western response.”