Thread by @arapaho415

🕺💃h/t @smp0312
Mar 16, 2021 recap <thread>:
1/ "Under Biden, the [White House] National Security Council has established a Democracy and Human Rights directorate which has battling corruption as a key mission; that division has hired Chandana Ravindranath... (con't)

https://twitter.com/nahaltoosi/status/1371836555921350663

2/ ...as a director whose sole focus is anti-corruption. The administration also has been considering naming a State Department-based special envoy to rally global attention to the topic, activists familiar with the issue said. (con't)

3/ ...Biden has pledged to host an international 'Summit for Democracy' in the coming months, and the need to fight corruption is expected to be a major theme during that gathering. Alongside the summit, Biden is expected to issue a presidential policy directive... (con't)

4/ ...that establishes fighting corruption as a core national security interest, a promise he made in an essay laying out his foreign policy agenda during the 2020 presidential campaign." (more...)
Jan 2020:
foreignaffairs.com/articles/unite…

5/ "In a recent 'interim strategic guidance' document outlining basic principles of its future National Security Strategy, the Biden administration blamed corruption for an array of ills, arguing, for example, that, tax havens and illicit financing...
whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

6/ ...'contribute to income inequality, fund terrorism, and generate pernicious foreign influence.'"
The 'interim strategic guidance' document promises: 'We will require transparency and accountability in 👉our government, root out corruption... (con't)

7/ ...and confront the distorting role of money in our politics.”
"There are signs that other countries are waking up to the magnitude of the challenge. In June, for instance, the UN🇺🇳 General Assembly will hold its 👉first-ever special session focused on corruption👈. (con't)

8/ ...Advocates are pushing to make fighting corruption an agenda item during other gatherings in the coming months, such as those of the G-7 and G-20 countries, as well as the Summit of the Americas, which the United States is planning to host later this year." /end