China will be pushing for more support from countries all over the world for the crackdown on corrupt officials who fled overseas via the G20 summit and all other upcoming global conventions.
During a meeting with the Communist Party of China's discipline watchdog, President Xi Jinping declared that the country should exert more pressure on foreign countries particularly those in the West like the United States to help them capture all corrupt officials who took refuge abroad.
"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," the South China Morning Post quoted him as saying during a meeting with the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
According to the outlet, Xi made the statement in January, but it was only made public on Tuesday via the People's Daily.
Xi's Anti-graft Campaign from the Inside
Xi's infamous anti-graft campaign became China's salvation in the world stage as it allowed the country to reach "the international moral high ground."
Led by the president himself, the program had ensnared both corrupt "tigers" and "flies" of the Chinese government as well as the private sector.
However, not everyone had been happy with Xi's project as some members of the CPC had been found to be making efforts in undermining the Party's governance.
"There are careerists and conspirators existing in our Party and undermining the Party's governance," he told the CCDI as quoted by the Xinhua News Agency. "We should not bury our heads in the sand and spare these members but must make a resolute response to eliminate the problem and deter further violations."
During the meeting, he noted that some of them "have been forming cabals and cliques" to secretly resist the decisions and policies of the CPC which, he said, might "risk compromising the political security of the Party and the country."
The Anti-corruption Campaign from the Outside
While it may appear that China's anti-graft campaign has already captured most of the corrupt officials in the country, there are still some who believe that it can never really eradicate the problem entirely.
According to Forbes contributor John Lee, the mere fact that the campaign denies due process to those accused is an indicator that it is not an effective program.
"Xi's anti-corruption campaign might be ruthless in that those accused are denied due process with which to defend themselves, but the common wisdom is that this is exactly what China and the Communist Party needs," he wrote.