China’s ‘Five Principles’ of Foreign Policy - 70 years
July 3 , 2024 144 days 262 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.