December 3, 2012, 4:05 PM

http://blogs.wsj.com/corruption-currents/2012/12/03/treasury-official-travels-to-china-for-money-laundering-terror-finance-workshop/

A top Treasury Department official is in China this week to participate in a workshop on money laundering and terrorist financing.

Daniel Glaser, the assistant Treasury secretary for terrorist financing, is participating in the 2012 Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism Workship, which came out of a commitment to a strategic dialogue between Beijing and Washington forged in May, Treasury said.

The workshop seeks to bring into operation a joint U.S. and Chinese commitment to fight illicit financing, a Treasury spokesman said.

“The…workshop is one of the key forums for U.S.-Chinese cooperation on illicit finance issues and provides an important opportunity to address areas of mutual concern at a technical level,” the spokesman said in an email. “This year, the workshop will focus on two major issues: targeted financial sanctions and cross-border financial investigations.”

U.S. officials have focused increasingly on what the administration calls the nexus between corruption, crime and terrorism.