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title: "Anti-Corruption Campaign Definition | Model Diplomat"
description: "An anti-corruption campaign is a state-led initiative to combat graft among officials, notably China's campaign under Xi Jinping since 2012."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- An anti-corruption campaign is a sustained state-led drive to investigate, prosecute, and deter graft among officials, most prominently China's post-2012 campaign under Xi Jinping.
- What institutional change did the 2018 Supervision Law bring to China's anti-corruption campaign?
- What is meant by 'tigers and flies' in the Chinese anti-corruption campaign?
- How does India's anti-corruption architecture differ from China's?
- Why do critics describe the campaign as power consolidation?

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