However hard one tries, it is virtually impossible to root out corruption in a one-party system without press freedom, a robust civil society, or the rule of law. Yet these are precisely the “Western values” that CCP apparatchiks are attempting to eliminate.
这一观点在理论和实践上都站不住脚。不管如何努力，一党体系都不可能在没有言论自由、强大的公民社会和法治精神的情况下根除腐败。而这些正是中共高级干部所欲除之而后快的“西方价值观”。