Other countries' sins have always sold newpapers and TV documentaries (with the added 'doesn't happen here' feel-good factor which you don't have when they report corruption closer at home).

As a theologian I rather suspect that the basic 'quantum' of evil is pretty much the same in any society, just distributed differently as to where the evil one thinks he can do most damage...

And if on top of this he can get countries to despise each other for each others' more visible sins, he kills two birds with one stone.