Every national leader, scored across up to eight dimensions of tenure contribution — from governance and economy to politics and crisis response. Compare current form against the legacy they'll leave behind.
Lai Ching-te, President of Taiwan, has no composite Leadership score yet — too few dimensions have sourced data to compute one. Their standout dimension is Institutional Integrity (96/100).
The data & sources
Lai Ching-te carries no composite rating: too few dimensions have sourced data, so it renders as "No data" rather than a filled-in guess. Diplomatic Conduct 77/100 (medium confidence) — performance-under-test blend from directed GDELT events + UCDP.
The risk read
Lai Ching-te's governing-stability conditions have no sourced score yet, so treat leadership-driven country risk as unquantified here. External conditions score 51/100 — the macro tailwind or headwind behind their tenure. For the full opportunity, market-pulse and resilience read, see Taiwan's nation page.
The strategic read
Governing conditions: external conditions 51/100.
Analyst OutlookAI · not a sourced score
claude-fable-5 · 2026-08-24
Cited, adversarially-verified forward analysis — every claim is sourced and survived a red-team. An LLM intelligence brief, not a sourced score, and never blended into this leader's ratings.
Taiwan's opposition cut Lai's defense plan by 40% and tried to impeach him — and is now handing him the nuclear-restart mandate he could never ask his own party for, because the Iran war turned an 11-day gas reserve into the only argument in Taipei that matters.
The Consensus
A hobbled president: 38% approval, a KMT-TPP legislature that cut his special defense budget by 40% and voted to impeach him, a Trump who called Taiwan a 'negotiating chip' and froze a $14bn arms package before his Beijing summit, and a November local election the DPP is expected to lose — Beijing's coast-guard 'squeeze' tightens while Washington looks toward Iran.
The 'abolish the nuclear-free homeland' referendum passes on 2026-11-28 — clearing the 25%-of-electorate threshold with 'yes' above 60% of valid votes — and the DPP government announces it will implement the result rather than contest it.
AI · not a sourced score · claude-fable-5 · 4 cited sources · red-teamed · never blended into ratings
Wrong if the nuclear referendum is removed from the 2026-11-28 ballot, fails the 25% threshold, wins less than 60% of valid votes, or if the Executive Yuan states it will not implement the result by 2026-12-15. by 2026-12-15
Confidence76%
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Strongest counter — The August 2025 Maanshan referendum won 73.5% yes and still failed; Taiwan's threshold rule has killed popular referendums before, and a DPP base mobilised against nuclear waste and safety could still push 'yes' under 60%. Survives because the 2025 vote failed on turnout alone (4.34 million yes against a 5.0 million threshold) in a standalone August ballot; coupled with more than 10,000 local races the electorate share clears easily, and the DPP government itself reversed course in March 2026 — there is no 'no' campaign left to run.
No sourced communication signal yet. This blends GDELT coverage tone, media reach and message resilience — it populates once GDELT indexes enough coverage of this leader.
Diplomatic Conduct
77/ 10090% sourced · severity 47
Conduct 67 · Test Severity 47 → 77
Cooperative ratio20%76
Share of the country's international interactions coded cooperative vs conflictual
Restraint20%84
Inverse of net material force the country projects — armed-conflict events it initiates minus those it absorbs. Force projected abroad lowers it; being invaded does not
Coalition breadth15%66
Crisis
Exposure
—/ 100
Awaiting data
Response
—/ 100
Awaiting data
No sourced crisis signal yet. The World Bank GDP, UCDP battle-death and WGI political-stability series that drive this score don't cover this leader's mandate years yet — the card populates once those annual series extend into the current term.
Leadership Radar
Tenure Contribution · to date
Balanced profile — 19-point spread from Institutional Integrity to Diplomacy.
Country scores are blended with live World Bank data where available. Difficulty reflects the structural challenge of governing this nation — not the leader's individual performance.
Source: World Bank·Method: Unweighted average·✓ Reconstructableⓘ
Leadership Archetype
Awaiting data
No archetype yet — not enough sourced stats to classify one. The archetype is derived from the leadership stat profile; it populates once enough dimensions are sourced.
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Key questions
Who is Lai Ching-te?
Lai Ching-te is the President of Taiwan, from the Democratic Progressive Party.
How is Lai Ching-te viewed internationally?
Lai Ching-te has a Diplomatic Conduct score of 77/100.
Data coverage:107 Sourced·85 Derived|Scores refreshed: 2026-08-24·snap-20260824-c9f25cd0|Methodology:Reconstructable|Cite:How to cite
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✓ Reconstructable
ⓘLeadership Rating measures change under the leader relative to global trends — a score near 60 means performance broadly matched the benchmark trajectory. It is a weighted average of up to eight dimensions, renormalised over the ones with sourced data (the coverage note beside the score says how many), and requires all four core dimensions — Governance, Economy, Politics and Institutional Integrity — to be sourced. Five use live World Bank indicators; the rest are derived from sourced signals (WIPO/Oxford/UNESCO, GDELT, World Bank + UCDP, survey data) where coverage exists. Diplomacy is a GDELT-derived engagement proxy, and anything unsourced shows as no data. Political position is V-Dem V-Party expert coding. Full weights on the Methodology page.
How many distinct countries it cooperates with as initiator
Agreements & mediation15%70
Mediating, negotiating and signing formal agreements as initiator (GDELT CAMEO)
Sanctions balance10%9
Sanctions the country imposes minus those imposed on it
Engagement volume10%74
Count of international diplomatic events — country-level
Media tone10%—
Favourability of foreign coverage of the leader on diplomacy — leader-level, low-weighted
Partial coverage: 90% of the formula's weight is currently sourced; the score renormalises over what's present. Remaining components appear as data lands.
SourceGDELT 2.1 Events + DOC APIMethodPerformance-under-test blend, severity-amplifiedConfMedium✓ ReconstructableⓘHow a head of state conducts themselves on the world stage, not how much activity their country generates. Blends cooperative ratio (20%), Restraint (inverse of net force projected, 20%), coalition breadth (15%), agreements & mediation (15%), sanctions balance (10%), engagement (10%) and leader media tone (10%), renormalised over available data. Test Severity (active conflict + conflictual share + sanctions received) amplifies the blend so conduct under fire moves the score more. Full model on the Methodology page.
Politics
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Crisis Response
—
Vision
—
Communication
—
Institutional Integrity
96
Source: World Bank + derived·Method: Contribution·✓ ReconstructableⓘEach dimension measures change under the leader relative to global trends — how the indicator moved over their tenure, net of the world's move over the same window — not the country's absolute level. A score near 60 means performance broadly matched the benchmark trajectory; above = improved the country's standing, below = declined. Governance / Economy / Politics / Institutional Integrity from World Bank WGI, WDI and V-Dem trajectories; Vision from the country's innovation rank (WIPO patents + UNESCO tertiary), former leaders only (patents lag ~3 years); Crisis Response (World Bank + UCDP + WGI, an absolute response-quality scale) and Communication (GDELT) from tenure signals; Diplomacy (Diplomatic Conduct) is active-only. A tenure under six months, or an indicator whose series hasn't reached the term, shows as no data. Full model on the Methodology page.
Stewardship
Inherited-strength lens · separate from the rating
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Governance
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Politics
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Integrity
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Innovation
—
0 of 4 groups eligible and sourced
Source: World Bank WGI + V-Dem + derived·Method: Stewardship·✓ ReconstructableⓘMeasures whether strong institutions inherited at the start of the tenure were preserved, improved or eroded. It does not reward the leader for inheriting a strong country. A metric qualifies only when the inherited baseline was at least 75 on its normalized scale; the score is the world-net change over the tenure on the single public scale (60 = preserved relative to global movement). Requires two or more eligible sourced groups, the six-month tenure floor and a post-tenure-start observation — otherwise No data, never a zero. Weights mirror the current-form groups (gov 0.17 · pol 0.15 · int 0.08 · vis 0.09), renormalized over what is eligible and sourced.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Top Strengths
Institutional Integrity96
Perceived transparency and anti-corruption track record
Diplomacy77
International relations and multilateral negotiation
Key Weaknesses
Source: Derived·Method: Ranked by stat value·✓ ReconstructableⓘUp to 5 strengths (dimensions scoring 70+) and 5 weaknesses (scoring 57 or below), ranked from the leadership radar. Dimensions in the 58–69 benchmark band appear in neither column. Descriptions are fixed per dimension and don't vary by country. Dimensions without a sourced signal show as no data. Full model on the Methodology page.
Current Challenges
Awaiting data
No flagged challenges — no key dimension is below its threshold, or the sourced indicators that drive these flags aren't in yet.
Leadership Conditions
Government Stability
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No data available for this dimension.
External Conditions
51
Neutral external conditions.
Time in Office 27 months·Since 2024-05
Source: WGI · V-Dem · UCDP · trend·Method: Weighted blend·✓ ReconstructableⓘGovernment Stability blends six sourced signals, renormalised over what's available: WGI Political Stability (30%), institutional strength (20%), V-Dem continuity (15%), UCDP violence deaths (current-year UCDP-CED where available, else finalized annual GED, 15%), Fragile States social cohesion (10%) and the 3-year WGI trend (10%). External Conditions derives from a World Bank GDP-growth shock over the tenure.
Country scores are the unweighted average of scored World Bank indicators — the same model used on the nation's own page. Difficulty reflects structural constraints on governing this nation, independent of the current leader.
Lai Ching-te — President, Taiwan (2024–present) | NationsHelm
