TNPSC Thervupettagam

China’s ‘Five Principles’ of Foreign Policy - 70 years

July 3 , 2024 10 hrs 0 min 32 0
  • China holds commemorative events to mark the 70th anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence- a foreign policy concept.
  • It was first articulated in an agreement with India in 1954.
  • China calls the Five Principles is known in India as Panchsheel.
  • In 1954, while inaugurating bilateral talks between India and China over Tibet, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai proposed the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.
  • The Panchsheel Agreement, formally known as The Agreement on Trade and Intercourse with Tibet Region, was signed on April 29, 1954.
  • A year after the Sino-Indian Agreement, the Five Principles would feature prominently at the first African-Asian Conference in Bandung, Indonesia.

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