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China’s Xi Jinping vows to focus on judicial cooperation in multilateral ties
- Wider law enforcement and judicial cooperation in bilateral and multilateral ties are important for national security, Chinese president tells Politburo
- Beijing has grown increasingly wary of its drawbacks in the international legal arena
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to prioritise multilateral law enforcement and judicial cooperation to safeguard national security, while reiterating his call for China’s laws to apply beyond its borders.
Xi’s comments, made before the Communist Party’s top leadership, come at a time when China is engaged in an intense geopolitical stand-off with several Western governments, with bruising overseas legal tangles piling up for Chinese companies.
“It is necessary to incorporate the expansion of law enforcement and judicial cooperation as an important agenda of bilateral and multilateral relations,” Xi said at a study session of the Politburo, the party’s centre of power and top policymaking body.
This was “in order to enhance foreign-related law enforcement and judicial work, and resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests”, he added.
Speaking in Beijing on Monday, Xi also called for a legal system that would allow the extraterritorial application of Chinese laws, a matter he has raised before.
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