Sino-US cooperation can help anti-graft drive

President Xi Jinping has said it is the responsibility of all countries to maintain the world order and international system with the UN Charter at its core, and promote new type of win-win international relations. And since China and the US both are permanent members of the UN Security Council, they are obliged to establish and develop bilateral legal cooperation to fight corruption based on the UN Charter.

China and the US have their own traditions and experiences of the rule of law. So the global fight against corruption should be based on international law, which respects the sovereignty of China and the US both. The two sides also have to help establish the global legal principles and measures that yield mutual benefit and promote Sino-US cooperation.

The UN began promoting international cooperation to combat corruption in the 1970s. The UN Convention against Corruption issued in 2003 established the principles, rules and regulations for global legal cooperation against corruption, which should also be the basis of Sino-US legal cooperation to fight corruption.