Business
Across one career, making money and holding political power can become so tangled that neither can be understood without the other, like two snakes wrapped around each other. Each one feeds the other. With them combined, an owner of a struggling computer-leasing firm became a multi-billionaire in about four years.
A political leader can build a governing philosophy by fusing an imported Western idea, the social contract between rulers and ruled, with a modernised form of the local religion, Buddhism. The mix gives a modern political program a familiar moral language.
The same leader can be seen by some as a visionary, even a revolutionary, and by others as greedy, deceitful, deluded and dangerous. These clashing views do not settle into a middle verdict. They divide the public into opposing camps.