CHINA and MULTILATERALISM

§ United Nations/Security Council - 1971

o collective security - support of certain PKOs (Cambodia, E. Timor) since early 1980s, but frequent opposition to coercive power (Iraq, Bosnia, Libya, Rwanda)

o UN Registry of Arms and White Papers

o Covenants on Econ. & Social Rights, Political & Civil Rights

§ Regional Security & Economic Cooperation

o ASEAN-Post Ministerial Conference - 1991, 1996

o ARF (1994), South China Sea “workshops,” ASEAN+3

o APEC

o Four-Party and Six-Party Talks on Korea

o Shanghai Coop. Org. with Russia and Central Asian States

§ International Arms Control

o Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

o Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)

§ Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions

§ Nuclear and other export controls

§ Outer Space, Seabed, Antarctic, regional NWFZs

§ International Economy and Environment

o UNDP, Group of 8

o World Bank, ABD, IMF

o WTO

o Montreal Protocol, Kyoto Protocol