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- Diplomacy
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category: Diplomacy
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summary: 1955 meeting of Asian and African states in Indonesia that established the Non-Aligned Movement, attended by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and shaping Cold War diplomacy.
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The Bandung Conference was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, held in Bandung, Indonesia, in April 1955. Egyptian leader [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] attended this conference and received a promise from [[Chou En-lai]], the Chinese premier, for as many arms as [[Egypt]] could afford. This marked a significant step in Nasser's efforts to secure military aid from the Communist world.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 2. |