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Aung San Suu Kyi

State Counsellor of Myanmar, 2016 to 2021

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A Nobel Peace laureate who spent years under house arrest before leading Myanmar's government, her reputation suffered over the army's treatment of the Rohingya. She was jailed again after the 2021 coup.

Aung San Suu Kyi sits in the near the center part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly free market and slightly authoritarian. The clearest positions are leaning nationalist on nation, leaning religious on religion and leaning traditional on culture.

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Where Aung San Suu Kyi sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomySlightly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologySlightly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceSlightly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsSlightly institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismSlightly non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Aung San Suu Kyi

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Political views closest to Aung San Suu Kyi

CommunitarianismStresses community bonds, shared values and civic duty over pure individualism.98%Green conservatismSees protecting land, beauty and heritage as conservative values.96%Christian democracyBlends Christian social teaching, a social market economy and European cooperation.96%Non-alignmentKeeps countries out of great-power blocs and military alliances.95%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Cabinet Public Relations Office of the Cabinet Secretariat, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.