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Singapore's dominant party, in power since 1959 and founded by Lee Kuan Yew. It combines state capitalism, technocratic meritocracy, strict social order, official multiculturalism and dominant-party electoral democracy.
Political axes
Leans further toward globalism than 97% of the 159 parties and organizations in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Trade is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most parties and organizations.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 266 ideologies
Synthesis of the Asian Tigers: entrusts government to a merit-recruited technical elite insulated from the vote and guided by results rather than doctrine, combining free trade, open markets and low taxation with strict public order and state planning where it proves effective.
Model of the Communist Party of Vietnam uniting Ho Chi Minh Thought, anticolonial national liberation and the 1986 Đổi Mới: single-party rule, a socialist-oriented market economy, a dominant state sector and openness to global trade.
Pragmatic reform initiated by Deng Xiaoping that introduced markets, private property, and economic opening under the absolute control of the Communist Party, forming the model of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
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Anarcho-NaturismAnarchist35%
Alibaba's founder and a Chinese Communist Party member, Ma promoted entrepreneurship, global trade and technology, defended the 996 work culture and criticised state financial regulation before the Ant Group crackdown.
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Vietnam's single party, founded in 1930 by Ho Chi Minh, in power since reunification in 1975. It combines Leninism and political control with the market opening of Doi Moi, an anti-corruption campaign and balanced diplomacy among China, the US and Russia.
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