"Mr. Wen’s ... advocacy [for political reform] has rendered him increasingly isolated within a top leadership that, if anything, has more stubbornly resisted tinkering with the system than its predecessors did. In what seemed a message to the next generation of Chinese leaders, he said that political reform had reached a crucial stage, and that stalling or retreating from change “offers no way out.” [Wen highlighted the] increases in corruption and income disparity and a decline in the government’s credibility." (Quoted from article)