China News / Jinping remembered the 70-year-old Panchasheel principle and said that this will end conflicts

China News: Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke of the principles of Panchsheel to end the current conflicts. He emphasized on increasing his country's influence in the Global South amid China's conflicts with Western countries. Jinping made this statement at a conference here on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the principles of Panchsheel. According to the Ministry of External Affairs, the principles of Panchsheel were first included in the agreement between China and India on April 29, 1954 regarding trade and relations between the Tibet region. In China it is called the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence while in India it is called the Principles of Panchsheel.

Agreement on the principles of Panchsheel

When the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Chinese Prime Minister Chou Enlai failed to find a solution to the border issue, they agreed on the principles of Panchsheel. Jinping said that the five principles met the demand of the time and their beginning was a historic event.

What are these principles

In the past, the Chinese leadership for the first time fully specified the five principles i.e. respect for each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity, non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence.

The Chinese President said that he had included the five principles in the China-India and China-Myanmar joint statements. In these statements, there was a call to make the five principles the basic norms for bilateral relations.

The Panchsheel principles started in Asia

Leaders and officials of countries close to China, including former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, attended this conference. Jinping said in his address that the Panchsheel principles started in Asia, but soon they spread to the world stage. He said that more than 20 Asian and African countries participated in the Bandung Conference in 1955. He said that the Non-Aligned Movement that emerged in the 1960s also adopted these principles as guiding principles.

China's conflict with India

Facing growing strategic competition from the US and the European Union, China has in recent years sought to expand its influence in Asian, African and American countries. These countries are broadly referred to as the Global South. Jinping said that China will establish a Global South Research Center to better support Global South-South cooperation.