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China

Security Council — figures below are for this body only.

UN code CHN · ISO 3166-1 CHN. Seen voting 1946-01-25 to 2026-09-29 (in the loaded data; not UN membership dates).

The UN records 'China' throughout; the seat passed from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China in 1971 (GA res. 2758). The dataset does not distinguish.
2751Recorded votes taken part in
5%Abstention rate145 of 2683 · Abstentions as a share of the country's yes, no and abstain positions.
23Vetoes cast

Yes 2536 · No 2 · Abstain 145 · Did not vote 68 · 78 resolutions adopted without a vote (not counted). See these votes →

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Vetoes cast

1955: 1 · 1972: 2 · 1997: 1 · 1999: 1 · 2007: 1 · 2008: 1 · 2011: 1 · 2012: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2026: 2 (Vetoes & Council)

Positions by topic

Topics are assigned by keyword rules; a resolution can have several.

TopicYesNoAbstain
Peacekeeping and missions1296065
Africa1057062
Middle East488030
Europe and Balkans384026
Sanctions246042
Asia and Pacific201110
Humanitarian and protection178013
Membership and appointments11104
International justice10904
Americas92010
Counter-terrorism8302
Non-proliferation and disarmament6703

Agreement with other countries (1946–2026)

Share of shared recorded votes with the same position; only countries with at least 20 shared votes. Agreement is not alliance – see Methodology.

Highest agreement

CountryAgreementShared votes
Mauritius100%136
Chad100%127
Singapore100%116
Luxembourg100%110
Madagascar100%34
Thailand100%34
Trinidad and Tobago100%34
Burundi100%30
Cameroon99%154
Burkina Faso99%148

Lowest agreement

CountryAgreementShared votes
Somalia77%90
Liberia78%27
Sudan81%26
Yugoslavia83%93
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics83%622
Albania83%103
Sierra Leone86%120
Czechoslovakia86%36
Switzerland86%96
Slovenia87%225