Issues of Concern to China Regarding the International Criminal Court

This paper was produced as part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Canada funded Promotion of the International Criminal Court in China Project. As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and the largest developing country, China has adopted a comparatively positive attitude toward the establishment of an ICC. However, since some of the fundamental issues related to the Rome Statute that were of concern to China have not been satisfactorily resolved, China voted against the Statute and chose not to join the ICC in the end. Therefore, a close study of the concerns of China, major areas of concern over the ICC are primarily on the characteristics of the Court’s jurisdiction, the power of the ICC Prosecutor to pursue self-initiated investigations, will bear important significance in gradually resolving the factors that impeded China from signing and ratifying the Rome Statute, in facilitating China’s joining of the ICC at an appropriate time and in contributing to the improvement of Rome Statute.

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