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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.
Political axes
Jack Ma leans further toward globalism than 89% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Trade is where Jack Ma stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Jack Ma sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 243 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.
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.
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.
The most distant ideology
CommunalismAnarchist31%
A Brazilian economist and diplomat, Campos served as planning minister under the military regime, created the Central Bank and the housing bank, and became the country's most influential advocate of economic liberalism and privatisation.
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A global financial center, Hong Kong is an autonomous region of strong free-market capitalism and technocratic management, whose broad autonomy has been increasingly restricted by mainland China's political control.
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Under Alberto Fujimori, Peru combined a self-coup and the closing of Congress with neoliberal shock reforms, privatisations and trade liberalisation, alongside a dirty war against the Shining Path marked by massacres and forced sterilisations.
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