evidence: The relationship between China – Pakistan relations first began in the 1950s. Pakistan was one of the first countries to recognize the People’s Republic of China regime and to end diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan). Subsequently, in 1956, Pakistani Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai signed the Treaty of Friendship between them, thus upping bilateral ties. During the Sino – Indian war in 1962, both China and Pakistan combined to counter India and the Soviet Union in their border dispute. In the subsequent year, Pakistan ceded the Trans-Karakoram Tract and ending their border dispute with China.