The recent onslaught against free speech and Western values reflects the central political challenge facing President Xi Jinping, who must transform a one-party system enfeebled by greed and mistrust into a well-ordered, ideologically united regime capable of carrying out market-based reforms and sustaining its own long-term survival. A crackdown on liberalism, he seems to believe, will work alongside his anti-corruption campaign to advance this goal.
最近针对言论自由和西方价值观的突击反映出国家主席习近平所面临的核心政治挑战。习近平必须将因贪婪和不信任而衰败无力的一党体系转变为秩序良好、思想统一的体制，使之具备实施市场改革、维持长期生存的能力。他似乎认为，镇压自由主义有利于他推进这一目标的反腐运动。