If China feels that the UN is in any way hindering this goal, it will voice these concerns and will not hesitate to oppose any resolutions that fall into that category. Foreign Policy China s foreign policy since the late 1970s has been a function of its domestic priorities. Under its current leadership, China has continued to reduce tensions with its neighbors, agreeing on downsizing its troop deployment along borders and other confidence-building measures with Russia and its central Asian neighbors. China has adopted a less confrontational and even conciliatory stand in resolving its territorial disputes with India and Japan. Its relations in the South China Sea area, however, while peaceful, are uneasy.
China still pursues an independent foreign policy of peace.
The basic objectives of their policy center on safeguarding national independence and state sovereignty, and creating an international environment favorable to its reform, opening modernization efforts, as well as maintaining world peace and promoting common development. China maintains independence and is principled in international affairs, determining their own position and policies in accordance with the merits of each case and never yielding to pressure from major powers, nor entering into alliance with any major power or power bloc. The Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1052 in 1996 to seek an immediate cessation of hostilities, after rejecting an Arab-sponsored draft that would have strongly condemned the Israeli aggression. Only China and three other countries supported the Arab resolution. China generally will vote against the United States when the US votes with Israel.