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Singapore Developmental State and Xi-era CCP
Measured distance across six axes
The same broad family. They agree within three points on CU, SC. No axis separates them by eight points or more.
Axis by axis
| Axis | PAP | Xi-era CCP | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +05 | −02 | 7 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +06 | +08 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +06 | +10 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +07 | +10 | 3 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +02 | +07 | 5 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CH · Method and tempo | −06 | −02 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
Each axis runs from −10 to +10; the distance is the straight-line separation across all six at once, out of a maximum of 49.0. How the scoring works →
The evidence behind the widest gaps
A distance figure is worth nothing unless the scores behind it can be checked. These are the artefacts supporting the axes that separate these two most.
PAP · EC +05
Very open trade and investment alongside majority state ownership of land and housing. Coded mildly market.
- Documented act or statuteAround eighty percent of residents live in public housing built by the Housing Development Board.
- Documented act or statuteTemasek and GIC hold state investment portfolios across the domestic economy.
Xi-era CCP · EC −02
Most output and employment are private, but party committees sit inside firms and strategic sectors are state-held. Coded just left of centre.
- Comparative datasetPrivate firms account for the large majority of urban employment and of new job creation.
- Documented act or statuteThe 2018 company law revision required party organisations inside firms above a size threshold.
What this comparison does not establish
Proximity means similarity of stated position. It carries no claim about competence, circumstance, scale of operation, or what either organisation actually did to the people under it. Two organisations can sit close together and produce entirely different histories, because those things are not on any axis and could not be.
Singapore Developmental State
1959– · Singapore
Meritocratic technocratic administration, social discipline and openness to global capital, with permanent single-party dominance.
Xi-era CCP
2012– · China
Party leadership over everything, national rejuvenation, common prosperity, and discipline of private capital.
Distance is not the whole answer. Two organisations can sit the same distance apart for entirely different reasons, and the reason is the content of any claim about them. Open the comparison in the atlas to weight the axes yourself.
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