The PRC ‘s new stance was also reflected in its approach to the newly independent states of Asia. In the first flush of the victory of the revolution, Mao had claimed that two years after achieving independence the people of India were still living ‘under the yoke of imperialism and its collaborators’. By 1951 that approach had been set aside and in 1954 the PRC signed a treaty about Tibet with India, whose preamble listed rules for international conduct that were later to be proclaimed as the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. The more moderate approach caused the Colombo power to invite China to the first Asian-African Conference that was held in Bandung, Indonesia, in April 1955.