So far, Xi’s campaign has remained a conventional affair involving selective prosecution. Given the central government’s well-known inability to enforce its policies at the local level and the prevalence of tight-knit patronage networks in Chinese provinces and cities, it is unrealistic to expect that the current anti-corruption drive will produce significantly better results than in the past.
目前，习近平的反腐运动仍只是有选择性起诉的常规作战。众所周知，中国中央政府无力在地方层面强行推行政策，而中国各省市之间普遍存在紧密的互助互惠关系，因此期待当前的反腐运动产生比过去好得多的效果是不现实的。