Meanwhile, China’s growing geopolitical heft has led to muscle-flexing and territorial claims in Asia that disregard international norms. 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).
同时，中国地缘政治重要性日渐增长已导致其无视国际规则炫耀武力和在亚洲提出领土要求。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）。