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Sources: Statistical yearbooks and government documents released by the Chinese government and data on China's defense expenditure submitted to the UN by the Chinese government


Table 4 Major Multilateral Treaties on Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Joined by China
Category Treaties Time
Nuclear Protocol to the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia Signed in May 2014, approved in Apr. 2015 by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
Protocol Additional to the Agreement Between the People's Republic of China and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards in China Signed in Dec. 1998, entered into force in Mar. 2002
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Signed in Sep. 1996
Protocol I and II to the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty Signed in Apr. 1996, instrument of ratification deposited in Oct. 1997
Convention on Nuclear Safety Signed in Sep. 1994, ratified in Apr. 1996
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Acceded in Mar. 1992
Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof Acceded in Feb. 1991
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material Acceded in Feb. 1989
Agreement Between the People's Republic of China and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards in China Signed in Sep. 1988, entered into force in Sep. 1989
Additional Protocol II and III to the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone Treaty Signed in Feb. 1987, instrument of ratification deposited in Oct. 1988
Additional Protocol II to the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean Signed in Aug. 1973, instrument of ratification deposited in Jun. 1974
Chemical Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction Signed in Jan. 1993, instrument of ratification deposited in Apr. 1997
Biological Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction Acceded in Nov. 1984
Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare Statement issued to acknowledge the Protocol in Jul. 1952
Conventional Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War (Protocol V) of Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or Have Indiscriminate Effects Instrument of ratification deposited in Jun. 2010