The Financial Times ran a commentary on its website on Wednesday, announcing that China's fight on corruption is "bound to fail."

The reasons, author David Pilling wrote, were because the crackdown on the "tigers" and "flies" is a "trial by the Communist party, not trial by law," and it can "only be seen as arbitrary and politically driven."

The shocking conclusion comes at the end of the story, which predicts that the latest anti-corruption campaign will either have to call a halt, or risk resembling the 18th-century French revolution, which ended up devouring its own.

These words reflect typical Western prejudice against China: They believe this is a country where the ruling party lacks legitimacy, and that all moves are the result of internal Party struggles.

The article also compares the current campaign to a "Maoist purge."

Older Chinese people who have been through numerous political campaigns in earlier years know better how different the on-going anti-corruption campaign is.

This campaign is based on the Communist Party of China's disciplinary rules as well as the country's laws. The joint crackdown has been winning wide support among the Chinese public, and it is also the reason why the fight has been going well in China, but lackluster in India and Indonesia, among other Asian countries that Pilling described as "riddled with graft."

It appears that some Westerners do not want to see the success of China's anti-corruption campaign.

China has to go on with its fight on corruption, and as the campaign has come to today's scale and depth, there is no way back.

If the anti-corruption campaign does not carry on, if clean government does not gradually becomes normal, the people will lose trust in the ruling party, and the country will face huge political uncertainty.

It's true that today some people are hoping the anti-corruption campaign will come to a stop at an "appropriate" point. They believe it is only a temporary campaign.

What they may not see is that the bigger picture of the current graft fight is about the country's modernization of governance and development of the rule of law.

The fight on corruption has been deeply worked into the country's social and political development. It can only go forward.

If there should be an end of the anti-corruption campaign, it should only be the time when a mature system to ensure clean governance has been established. The sincerity shown by the ruling party in this campaign indicates that this campaign will not mean China's "hard landing."