a set of principles, widely known since then as the principles of Panch Sheel. Panch Sheel (five virtues) . Mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty . Mutual non-aggression .
Mutual non-interference in each other's internal affairs . Equality and cooperation for mutual benefit . Peaceful co-existence Meanwhile, Nehru took special efforts to project China and Chou En-lai at the Bandung Conference, held in April . In , the Dalai Lama, fled Tibet along with thousands of refugees after a revolt by the Buddhists was crushed by the Chinese government.
The Dalai Lama was given asylum in India and it made the Chinese unhappy. Soon after, in October , the Chinese opened fire on an Indian patrol near the Kongka pass in Ladakh, killing five Indian policemen and capturing a dozen others. Though talks were held at various levels including with Chou En-lai, not much headway was made. Nehru and Chou En-lai Bandung Conference Reconstruction of Post-colonial India “So far as all these evil forces of fascism, colonialism and racialism or the nuclear bomb and aggression and suppression are concerned, we stand most emphatically and unequivocally committed against them .
. . We are unaligned only in relation to the cold war with its military pacts. We object to all this business of forcing the new nations of Asia and Africa into their cold war machine.
Otherwise, we are free to condemn any development which we consider wrong or harmful to the world or ourselves and we use that freedom every time the occasion arises.”