UN anti-corruption convention: Taiwan's third national report faces international review

Aug 24, 2026

Taiwan opened a four-day international review of its third anti-corruption report, a mostly positive story for a government trying to prove its clean-governance record to the world.

  • Five foreign experts, from Peru, the US, New Zealand, Australia and the UK, are reviewing how well Taiwan follows the UN anti-corruption convention.
  • Taiwan is not a UN member but chose to follow the convention anyway, and has put itself through this review twice before, in 2018 and 2022.
  • The government points to a record score on Transparency International's corruption index, ranking 24th out of 182 countries and territories.
  • Officials say new risks — AI, digital finance, cross-border crime and dirty money flows — mean the anti-corruption rules have to keep changing.
  • Review chair José Ugaz called Taiwan a success story, while noting corruption problems have not gone away.

Outlook: The experts will meet government and civil-society groups this week and publish their conclusions on the 28th, which will shape Taiwan's next round of anti-corruption reforms.

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