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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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Hong Kong became a special administrative region of China on 1 July 1997; this is a legal status reference.
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This position is 33.7 points from the median of the 204 country and regime profiles in this collection.
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This position is 3.8 points from this collection’s median.
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A doctrine of Curtis Yarvin that proposes running the state as a joint-stock company: shareholders, a sovereign CEO, citizens as customers who can leave, guaranteed private property and politics replaced by management.
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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CommunalismAnarchist48.3 / 100Scores below are similarity indices out of 100, calculated from catalog coordinates. They do not establish historical influence or endorsement. How the comparison works →
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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