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The East Asian Tiger model (Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong): champions free markets, foreign trade and private enterprise as engines of growth, paired with an active technocratic state that plans infrastructure, education and strategic industrialization, stopping short of closed protectionism or hard authoritarian control.
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I want free markets and foreign trade as engines of growth, guided by a technocratic state that plans infrastructure and education.
Political topics
Leans further toward private than 81% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Economy is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
President of Taiwan (1988–2000) and the first directly elected by popular vote, Lee guided the transition from Kuomintang one-party rule to a full multiparty democracy, promoting a distinct Taiwanese identity and economic liberalization.
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An island presidential republic, Taiwan is a vibrant democracy and global technology hub, especially semiconductors, living under constant military threat from China, and is Asia's pioneer in progressive causes such as marriage equality.
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A semi-presidential republic in the Caucasus, Armenia combines Christian national identity and historical rivalry with Azerbaijan and Turkey, seeking balance between Russia, the West, and Iran.
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An aristocratic republic of antiquity, Rome balanced consuls, Senate, and tribunes of the plebs in a mixed system of elective magistracies, expanding across the Mediterranean through citizen legions and a strong cult of civic virtue.
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Synthesis that unites free markets and economic freedoms with the appreciation of tradition, order, and institutions, defending prudent change and social stability within the framework of liberal democracy.
Geopolitical doctrine of the alliance between the US, Canada and Europe around NATO and the EU, which backs the alliance's eastward expansion and the use of Western military power to spread liberal democracy and free markets against Russia and China.
Pragmatic branch that prioritizes fiscal adjustment, economic stability, and governability through broad coalitions, accepting market reforms and political concessions in the name of short- and medium-term results.
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Centrist branch that combines economic moderation and institutional respect with social conservatism, valuing family, religion, order, and gradual change without joining the authoritarian right or populist radicalism.
Armed neutrality that refuses alliances, interventions and foreign projection, yet sustains robust armed forces, compulsory service and prepared territorial defense, treating military strength as the guarantee of not being dragged into other nations wars.
Pro-market centrist branch that combines fiscal responsibility, liberal democracy, moderate international openness, and institutional reform, rejecting both broad statism and libertarian radicalism as a political program.
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