中国和美国一样拒绝签署某些协议，包括国际刑事法院规约和联合国国际水道非航行使用法公约（这是明确跨国河流、湖泊及地下蓄水层资源共享规则的首部国际法 ） 。
China rejects some of the same treaties that the US has declined to join, including the International Criminal Court Statute and the Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (the first law to establish rules on the shared resources of transnational rivers, lakes, and aquifers).