China's shifting style of self-governance

The ruling party confesses its internal problems and frames its efforts to correct them as the reason for it to stay in power. Yet rising public protests point to the people seeking a different way to bestow legitimacy.

中共在高層會議上承認黨內存在嚴重問題，並清除創紀錄數量的官員，同時稱這種自我淨化恰恰證明其執政合法性。文章將這一“自我治理”與民主選舉的糾錯機制對比，並指出同期中國異議事件數量創下新高。