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China vs France: UN Voting Alignment

How often do China and France vote the same way at the UN General Assembly? Agreement over every shared roll-call vote since 1946, by year, decade, and topic — plus the resolutions where they split.

Overall agreement

40.2%

of 4,483 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946

Agreement by year

0%25%50%75%100%1971198020002024
China–France UN General Assembly voting agreement, 19712024. Latest: 1% agreement in 2024.

Agreement by decade

ChinaFrance UN voting agreement by decade
DecadeAgreementShared votes
197032.7%633
198036.7%1,291
199041.9%742
200045.3%908
201044.1%908
20200.0%1

Agreement by topic

ChinaFrance UN voting agreement by topic
TopicAgreementShared votes
Israel–Palestine62.4%965
Nuclear weapons26.1%705
Disarmament38.7%896
Colonialism29.7%649
Human rights25.3%875
Economic development39.9%574

Biggest splits

Biggest UN voting splits between China and France
ResolutionDateChinaFrance

A/RES/72/248

Situation of human rights in Myanmar : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2017-12-24noyes

A/RES/72/191

Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2017-12-19noyes

A/RES/72/189

Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2017-12-19noyes

A/RES/72/43

Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2017-12-04noyes

A/RES/72/50

United action with renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2017-12-04noyes

A/RES/71/248

International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2016-12-21noyes

A/RES/71/203

Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2016-12-19noyes

A/RES/71/204

Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2016-12-19noyes

A/RES/71/205

Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (Ukraine) : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2016-12-19noyes

A/RES/71/130

The Situation in the Syrian Arab Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

2016-12-09noyes

Frequently asked questions

How often do China and France vote together at the UN?

China and France voted the same way in 40.2% of 4,483 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.

Do China and France agree on human rights votes?

On human rights resolutions, China and France mostly disagree: they voted the same way in 25.3% of 875 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.

When did China and France last disagree at the UN?

Among their biggest recent splits, on 2017-12-24 China voted "no" and France voted "yes" on A/RES/72/248 (Situation of human rights in Myanmar : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly).

Data source: Erik Voeten et al., 'United Nations General Assembly Voting Data', Harvard Dataverse.