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by Apocryphon 1163 days ago
In several of the hyper-capitalist developmentalist East Asian states, all land is merely leased from the government:

Singapore - https://stackedhomes.com/editorial/land-ownership-in-singapo...

Hong Kong - https://www.landsd.gov.hk/en/resources/land-info-stat/land-t...

Some of this might have been because of the impression Georgism had on some of the Chinese revolutionaries, including Sun Yat-Sen himself:

https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=8&post=13799&unitname=E...

It's also because, by coincidence, U.S. State Department official Wolf Ladejinsky was influenced by Georgism. He was certainly no fan of communism, as he was a Ukrainian refugee from Bolshevik rule!

https://www.reddit.com/r/georgism/comments/10uzddk/the_georg...

Incidentally, while Taiwan does not have exclusive government ownership of land unlike Singapore, Hong Kong, or mainland China, it is a very successful example of land reform (which involved confiscation):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform_in_Taiwan

https://asianometry.substack.com/p/how-the-kmt-achieved-land...

https://cooperative-individualism.org/medaille-john_taiwan-a...