UN Votes

China

Permanent Security Council member
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5,694

GA votes

4,521 yes · 245 no · 556 abstain

2,815

SC votes

2,528 yes · 2 no · 139 abstain

22

Vetoes cast

P5 alignment

How often China voted the same way as each permanent Security Council member, of the resolutions both cast a yes/no/abstain vote on.

Permanent memberGA onlyGA + SC
United States of America19.1%43.4%
France42.2%59.2%
Russian Federation71.1%81.3%
United Kingdom40.5%58.0%
USA — 11.1%FRA — 24.4%RUS — 41.1%GBR — 23.4%

The pie chart is based on the “GA only” column, showing each member’s share of the combined total across all shown members (it does not sum those percentages to 100% on its own) — see the table for the actual agreement rate with each. The “GA + SC” column blends in Security Council votes, which are adopted almost unanimously and so tend to pull every country’s number up.

P5 alignment over time

Same GA-only metric, by year. A member’s line starts wherever it first has enough shared votes in a year to be meaningful (at least 5) — for Russia, that’s never before 1991, since the USSR voted under a separate historical record.

0%50%100%1946195019651980199520102025
USAFRARUSGBR

A/RES/71/50

The Arms Trade Treaty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/71/33

The Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAAbstain

A/RES/71/46

Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAAbstain

A/RES/71/31

Prevention of an arms race in outer space : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/71/86

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/71/59

Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva Protocol : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/71/58

Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/71/47

Humanitarian Pledge for the Prohibition and Elimination of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAAbstain

A/RES/71/63

Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/71/32

No first placement of weapons in outer space : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/71/36

Preventing and combating illicit brokering activities : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/71/45

Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAAbstain

A/RES/71/70

Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GANon-voting

A/RES/71/75

Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/71/30

Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/71/83

The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/71/51

Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/71/71

Follow-up to the 2013 High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Nuclear Disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/71/37

Reducing nuclear danger : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAAbstain

A/RES/71/67

Nuclear disarmament verification : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAAbstain

A/RES/71/44

Transparency in armaments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/71/53

Decreasing the operational readiness of nuclear weapons systems : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-12-05

GAYes

A/RES/71/24

The Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-11-30

GAYes

A/RES/71/25

Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-11-30

GAYes

A/RES/71/20

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-11-30

GAYes

A/RES/71/21

Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-11-30

GAYes

A/RES/71/23

Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-11-30

GAYes

A/RES/71/22

Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-11-30

GAYes

A/RES/71/11

Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-11-21

GAYes

A/RES/71/5

Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-10-26

GAYes

A/RES/70/280

Financing of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-06-17

GAYes

A/RES/70/265

Status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia, and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2016-06-07

GAAbstain

A/RES/70/231

Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-23

GANon-voting

A/RES/70/235

Oceans and the law of the sea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-23

GAYes

A/RES/70/234

Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-23

GANo

A/RES/70/185

Unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-22

GAYes

A/RES/70/194

Oil slick on Lebanese shores : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-22

GAYes

A/RES/70/225

Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-22

GAYes

A/RES/70/198

Agricultural technology for sustainable development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-22

GAYes

A/RES/70/142

Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly · 2015-12-17

GAYes

Vetoes cast by China

S/2026/273 — Middle East (Strait of Hormuz)

2026-04-07

S/2024/239 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2024-03-22

S/2023/792 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2023-10-25

S/2022/431 — Non-proliferation/DPRK

2022-05-26

S/2020/667 — Middle East (Syria)

2020-07-10

S/2020/654 — Middle East (Syria)

2020-07-07

S/2019/961 — Middle East (Syria)

2019-12-20

S/2019/756 — Middle East (Syria)

2019-09-19

S/2019/186 — Venezuela

2019-02-28

S/2017/172 — Middle East (Syria)

2017-02-28

S/2016/1026 — Middle East (Syria)

2016-12-05

S/2014/348 — Middle East (Syria)

2014-05-22

S/2012/538 — Middle East (Syria)

2012-07-19

S/2012/77 — Middle East (Syria)

2012-02-04

S/2011/612 — Middle East (Syria)

2011-10-04

S/2008/447 — Peace and security in Africa (Zimbabwe)

2008-07-11

S/2007/14 as orally revised — Myanmar

2007-01-12

S/1999/201 — FYR Macedonia

1999-02-25

S/1997/18 — Central America

1997-01-10

S/10784 — Middle East

1972-09-10

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