Anne Applebaum, The Washington Post;
"Any serious anti-corruption, anti-fraud platform
should also have an international angle, because the spread of
corruption in the United States is part of a larger sickness that now
afflicts the entire Western alliance. Jointly, the United States,
Britain, Germany, France, the rest of Europe — as well as Japan and
Australia — are now locked in a real, life-and-death struggle against
international kleptocracy. All of our political systems are now
vulnerable to Russian and Chinese bribery and influence-buying. All of
our online media is now the target of full-time political manipulation.
To
preserve our democracies and maintain rule of law, we need to push
back, as allies, using not just sanctions but also new laws limiting —
or eliminating — the use of tax havens and the broader money-laundering
toolkit."
