The 25th Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People’s Congress opens in the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, November 2, 2026. The CCP’s rubber-stamp legislature took up the second reading of the draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law that morning.
The CCP’s long arm is no longer just a practice. It's about to become a law.
For years, the CCP has hunted people overseas. Unofficially, through "persuasion," pressure on family members back home, and agents who turn up at front doors in New Jersey.
Now it is putting all of that into writing.
This week, in the Great Hall of the People, the CCP's rubber-stamp legislature is pushing ahead with a brand-new Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law. On Monday, November 2, the draft went through its second reading. The Party has not published the revised text.
Put this law next to two other documents, and you see the full machine:
the Fifth Plenum's new Decision on Party "self-governance," made public on November 1, which orders a crackdown on corruption through "virtual currencies, cross-border funds and blockchain," and on "the pursuit of fugitives, prevention of flight and recovery of illicit assets";
and a little-noticed set of rules from the CCP's top court and top prosecutor, in force since May 22, 2026, which spell out how to try people who are not in China, and convict them while they are abroad.
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