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