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| 1960, March 21 |
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| China and Nepal signed an agreement by which they set up a committee to demarcate their common border. | 1 |
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| April 26 |
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| Shortly before his departure from India, after six days of border talks, Premier Zhou Enlai declared that his government would not recognize the McMahon Line as the Indian-Chinese border. | 2 |
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| May 31 |
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| Xinhua, the PRC news agency, reported the signing of a treaty with Outer Mongolia, hitherto within the Soviet sphere of influence. | 3 |
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| June 10 |
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| Reports reached New Delhi that fierce fighting had been raging for ten days between Tibetans and PLA troops near the Nepalese frontier. On June 19, an international commission of jurists asserted that the Chinese Communists were guilty of genocide in attempting a systematic extermination of the Buddhist religion in Tibet. | 4 |
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| Aug |
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| The Soviet Union withdrew all of its technicians and specialists from China. | 5 |
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| Dec. 29 |
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| Beijing newspapers and radio broadcasts reported that during 1960 some 148 million acres of farmland had been affected by disastrous “natural calamities” such as drought and floods. | 6 |
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