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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.
Political axes
Lee Teng-hui leans further toward globalism than 75% of the 622 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Trade is where Lee Teng-hui stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, Lee Teng-hui sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 271 ideologies
Conservatism that protects institutions, family and order without doctrinal rigidity: it allows gradual reform and concessions in order to conserve the essential, in the line of Burke and Disraeli, rather than restoring an idealized past.
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.
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.
The most distant ideology
CommunalismAnarchist37%
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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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