1954 Sino-Indian Agreement

Agreement on trade relations between India and the Tibet region of China August 2024 The 1954 Sino-Indian Agreement, also called the Panchsheel Agreement,Raghavan, War and Peace in Modern India 2010 240–243 officially the Agreement on Trade and Intercourse Between Tibet Region and India, was signed by China and India in Peking on 29 April 1954. The preamble of the agreement stated the panchsheel, or the five principles of peaceful coexistence, that China proposed and India favoured. The agreement reflected the adjustment of the previously existing trade relations between Tibet and India to the changed context of India's decolonisation and China's assertion of suzerainty over Tibet. Bertil Lintner writes that in the agreement, "Tibet was referred to, for the first time in history, as 'the Tibet Region of China'".Lintner Bertil Great Game East : India, China And The Struggle For Asia's Most VolatileFrontier HarperCollins Publishers India 2012 978-93-5029-536-6 https://books.google.com/books?id=tbfjAAAAQBAJ&q=Sino%E2%80%93Indian+Agreement+1954&pg=PT2 Introduction The agreement expired on 6 June 1962, as per the original term limit, in the midst of the Sino-Indian border tensions. It was not renewed. By October of that year, war broke out between the two sides.Lintner, China's India War 2018 142–143: "But the Agreement on Trade and Intercourse between Tibet Region of China and India, which was concluded in 1954, expired on 6 June 1962, and, at a time when tension was mounting along the frontier, there was no interest on either side to have the agreement extended." Background The background of the 1954 Agreement includes the Convention of Calcutta (between Britain and China, concerning Tibet), the Convention of Lhasa (between Britain and Tibet), the Convention Between Great Britain and China Respecting Tibet, the Anglo-Russian Convention, Anglo Chinese trade regulations of 1908 and 1914, the McMahon Line agreement between Tibet and British Raj, the failure of the Tibetan appeal to the UN, the Seven Point Agreement 1951 (between China and the Ganden Phodrang government of Tibet), the Sino-India negotiations concerning Tibet, 1951 to 1953, and the Sino–India conference on Tibetan trade and intercourse, December 1953 to April 1954.This laundry list is hardly useful without any explanatory content; also this is over-reliance on a single source July 2022 Negotiations regarding inclusion of passes In December 1953, the Sino–India conference on Tibetan trade and intercourse started. During the negotiations related to which passes to include, Indian diplomats were successful in the inclusion of only six passes. India tried putting forward other passes, but did not push China and backed away after China showed resistance.Arpi Claude Claude Arpi 2020-08-28 The History of Barahoti Plain https://www.claudearpi.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/The-History-of-Barahoti.pdf 2020-11-24 Claude Arpi The Chinese also objected to the mention of Demchok as one of the passes.Arpi Claude August 2015 The Panchsheel Agreement (Book Excerpt: Tibet – The Lost Frontier) http://www.indiandefencereview.com/spotlights/the-panchsheel-agreement/ 2020-11-24 Indian Defence Review en-US According to Claude Arpi, the passes/routes mentioned by Delhi were:February 2021 Another citation would be beneficial 20em Tashigong, Gartok; Spanggur Tso To Rudok; Chiakang, Churkang, Ruksom; Tashigong, Churkang, Ruksom; Rudok, Ruksom, Rawang; Bodpo La; Shipki La; Keobarang; Shimdang; Gumrang (Khimokul); Tsang Chok La; Muling La; Mana Pass; Niti Pass; Tunjun La; Marhi La; Shalshal Pass; Kungri Bingri Pass; Darma Pass; Lampiya Dhura (Lampiya Lekh); Mangsha Dhura and Lipulekh. 80% Summary of agreement Preamble The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence or Panchsheel upon which the articles of the treaty were based on are listed as:Tibet Justice Center – Legal Materials on Tibet – China – Sino-Indian Trade Agreement over Tibetan Border (1954) [p. 185] https://www.tibetjustice.org/materials/china/china4.html 2020-11-09 www.tibetjustice.org mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty, mutual non-aggression, mutual non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful co-existing Articles Article I of the agreement paved the way for the establishment of Chinese trade agencies in New Delhi, Calcutta, and Kalimpong and Indian trade Agencies at Yatung, Gyantse, and Gartok. These trade agencies "would enjoy freedom from arrest while exercising their functions", among other privileges. Article II stated that traders of both countries would trade at pre-determined places. "The Government of China agrees to specify Yatung, Gyantse, and Phari as markets for trade. The Government of India agrees that trade may be carried on in India, including places like, Kalimpong, Siliguri, and Calcutta, according to customary practice." Also, the "Government of China agrees to specify Gartok, Pulanchung (Taklakot), Gyanima-Khargo, Gyanima-Chakra, Ramura, Dongbra, Puling-Sumdo, Nabra, Shangtse, and Tashigong as markets for trade"; and in the future the Government of India shall specify markets "on the basis of equality and reciprocity to do so". Article III covered pilgrimages by religious believers of the two countries and outlined certain provisions for pilgrims of both countries. Article IV pointed out some passes and routes which traders and pilgrims may use: Shipki La pass, Mana pass, Niti pass, Kungri Bingri pass, Dharma pass, and Lipu Lekh pass. Article V covered details related to certificates issued to traders that permitted traders to use other routes than those mentioned in Article IV as well as border transit procedures. Article VI outlined that "upon ratification by both Governments and shall remain in force for eight (8) years" and the procedure for extension. The agreement was signed Nedyam Raghavan Nedyam Raghavan de, Plenipotentiary of the Government of the Republic of India, and Chang Han Fu, Plenipotentiary of the Central People's Government, People's Republic of China. Raghavan was the Indian Ambassador while Chang Han-fu was the Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister. Further notes were exchanged.Notes Exchanged. Peking, April 29, 1954. pp 125—133. Criticism October 2021 Commentators in the West and also within India viewed the agreement as a "diplomatic blunder" on the part of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, especially after the 1962 war.Gupta K. 1978 Sino-Indian Agreement on Tibetan Trade and Intercourse: Its Origin and Significance https://www.jstor.org/stable/4366549 Economic and Political Weekly 13 16 696–702 4366549 0012-9976 References Bibliography Avtar Singh Bhasin Nehru, Tibet and China Penguin Random House 2021 9780670094134 Bashin, Nehru, Tibet and China 2021 Hoffmann Steven A. India and the China Crisis https://books.google.com/books?id=BpSRwC5_EPUC 1990 University of California Press 978-0-520-06537-6 Hoffmann, India and the China Crisis 1990 Hoffmann Steven A. India and the China Crisis https://books.google.com/books?id=_bjADwAAQBAJ 2018 first published 1990 University of California Press 978-0-520-06537-6 Hoffmann, India and the China Crisis 2018 Gene T. Hsiao The Foreign Trade of China: Policy, Law, and Practice Univ of California Press 2021 9780520315754 https://books.google.com/books?id=B_nnDwAAQBAJ Hsiao, The Foreign Trade of China 2021 Lintner Bertil China's India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World https://books.google.com/books?id=-L9DDwAAQBAJ 2018 OUP India 978-0-19-909163-8 Lintner, China's India War 2018 Menon Shivshankar Choices: Inside the Making of India's Foreign Policy https://books.google.com/books?id=GduACwAAQBAJ 2016 Brookings Institution Press 978-0-8157-2911-2 Menon, Choices 2016 Raghavan Srinath War and Peace in Modern India https://books.google.com/books?id=EbtBJb1bsHUC 2010 Palgrave Macmillan 978-1-137-00737-7 Raghavan, War and Peace in Modern India 2010 External links Agreement on Trade and Intercourse between the Tibet Region of China and India Lorenz Lüthi. Sino-Indian Relations, 1954–1962. p. 98. Eurasia Border Review Special Issue on China's Post-Revolutionary Borders, 1940s-1960s. NSC Briefing: Sino-Indian Treaty of 29 April 1954 on Tibet, CIA Library Reading Room, archived 11 February 2017. Category:China–India relations Category:1954 in China Category:1954 in India Category:1954 in international relations Category:Mao Zedong Category:Jawaharlal Nehru