The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence or Pancha Sila (also spelled Panch Sila or Panchsheel) are a series of agreements between the People's Republic of China and India. After the People's Liberation Army occupied Tibet, China came into increasing conflict with India. However, both nations were newly-established and interested in finding ways to avoid further conflict. Therefore in 1954 the two nations drew up the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence: The Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) (Simplified Chinese: 人民解放军, Traditional Chinese: 人民解放軍, pinyin: Rénmín Jiěfàng Jūn), which includes an army, navy, air force, and strategic nuclear forces, serves as the military of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... Tibet (Tibetan: བོད་, Bod, pronounced pö in Lhasa dialect; Chinese: 西藏, pinyin: Xīzàng; older spelling Thibet) is a region in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

1. Mutual sovereignty and integrity respected
2. Non-aggression
3. Non-interference
4. Equally and mutual benefit
5. Peaceful co-existence

They were first put forth by Premier Zhou Enlai in his talk to the Indian delegation at the start of the negotiations that took place in Beijing from December 1953 to April 1954 between the Delegation of the Chinese Government and the Delegation of the Indian Government on the relations between the two countries in the Tibet region of China. Sovereignty is the exclusive right to exercise supreme authority over a geographic region, group of people or oneself. ... Equality is a social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same status in a certain respect. ... Zhou Enlai (Simplified Chinese: 周恩来; Traditional Chinese: 周恩來; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chou En-lai) (March 5, 1898 – January 8, 1976), a prominent Chinese Communist leader, was Premier of the Peoples Republic of China from 1949 until his death. ...   Beijing[?] (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Pei-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Peking) is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tibet (Tibetan: བོད་, Bod, pronounced pö in Lhasa dialect; Chinese: 西藏, pinyin: XÄ«zàng; older spelling Thibet) is a region in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. ...

Later, the Five Principles were formally written into the preface to the "Agreement Between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of India on Trade and Intercourse Between the Tibet Region of China and India" concluded between the two sides. Since June 1954, the Five Principles were contained in the joint communique issued by Premier Zhou Enlai of China and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India, and have been adopted in many other international documents. As norms of relations between nations, they have become widely recognized and accepted throughout the world. A fruit stand at a market. ... The word international can mean: Between nations or encompassing several nations. ...

Despite the existence of the Five Principles, continued differences between the two nations led to the Sino-Indian War in 1962. The Sino-Indian war was a short border war between India and the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), the worlds two most populous countries, which took place in late 1962. ...

See also

• peaceful coexistence