China vows to win global support for graft-fugitive hunt and pressure nations that hold out
Beijing will use forums like the G20 summit to build backing for the campaign, President Xi Jinping tells anti-corruption agency
China will use the upcoming G20 summit and other global forums to push for greater co-operation in the campaign to hunt down graft suspects who have fled abroad, according to state media.
Beijing would also exert pressure on Western nations like the United States to win their backing in the fight, President Xi Jinping has told the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
“In the past, the United States and other Western nations often used the corruption issue to attack us at multilateral occasions such as the United Nations, G20 and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation,” he said according to a transcript of his speech released by People’s Daily on Tuesday.
The agency meeting was held in January but his remarks were only made public now.
The anti-graft campaign had allowed China to occupy “the international moral high ground” and improved its reputation on the world stage, he said.
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China would make better use of the “strategic initiative” at the G20 summit and other global platforms to push for broad cooperation in the hunt.
