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Human Rights an “Excuse” for Harboring Suspects?

Since becoming China’s top leader more than three years ago, President Xi Jinping has vowed to crack down on both “tigers” and “flies”–low-level government officials and Party elites–in a nationwide anti-corruption campaign. As a part of this war against graft, Chinese authorities have been actively seeking the cooperation of foreign governments in repatriating corrupt officials who fled overseas. Some countries have