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Under the Kuomintang, Taiwan lived under martial law and the one-party rule of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo, with land reform, export-led industrialization, state-owned firms and US support, the base of rapid growth.
Political axes
Leans further toward autocracy than 91% of the 308 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 273 ideologies
Current that joins the totalitarian authoritarianism of fascism to digital surveillance, artificial intelligence and technological control of the population, using technique to secure order and national unity.
An Arab current of state socialism combining pan-Arab nationalism, a vanguard party, planning, land reform and control of strategic sectors, advocating Arab unity, secularism and independence from imperialism.
The fascism of Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists: a single leader, Blackshirts and a corporate state, with an autarkic empire, British nationalism, antisemitism and opposition to liberalism and communism.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian27%
China's leader, Xi Jinping concentrated power like no successor of Mao, reinforcing the Communist Party's control, nationalism, and the country's global projection through technology and economic influence.
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A single-party socialist state, China unites the absolute political control of the Communist Party with a state-directed market economy, becoming a global industrial, technological, and geopolitical power.
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Under Bashar al-Assad (2000–2024), Syria was a centralized Ba'athist regime sustained by security forces, a clientelist state economy, and alliances with Russia and Iran during the civil war.
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