The Panchsheel (also spelled Pancha Sila or Panch Sila) or Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence is a series of agreements between the China, India. After the Central Chinese Government occupied Tibet , China came into increasing conflict with India. However, both nations were newly-established and interested in finding ways to avoid further conflict. The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence or Panch sheel are a series of agreements between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of India which were negotiated during the peace negotiations to avoid further conflict in Tibet.In April 1954, Republic of India and the People’s Republic of China agreed to set forth a new diplomatic protocol, an eight year agreement on Tibet in the form of the Five Principals of Peaceful coexistence or Panch sheel.
1. Mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty
2. Mutual non-aggression
3. Mutual non-interference in each other's internal affairs
4. equality and mutual benefit
5. Peaceful co-existence
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