Anurag Thakur, the Union Sports Minister, canceled his trip to Hangzhou last week after objecting to China’s ‘discriminatory’ move and claiming it violated the Olympic Charter. According to Mao Ning, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, The Chinese government has never recognized so-called Arunachal.
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There is no question that geopolitical reasons are gaining precedence during Asia’s biggest sporting event because The area of Zangnan is Chinese territory.
This is nothing more than Beijing’s latest provocation. Since these three players received stapled rather than stamped visas, the Indian Wushu team did not go to Chengdu, China, for the World University Games in July. The whole Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh was included in the 2023 edition of the standard map that China’s Ministry of Natural Resources published last month.
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China stated that the New Delhi Declaration emphasized that the G20 was not a platform to handle geopolitical and security issues in its first formal response to the recent G20 conference that was hosted by India. Beijing, however, has no issues using the Asian Games stage inappropriately to draw attention to a geopolitical issue.
Even while it appears that the Asian Games organizers and the Olympic Council of Asia are looking into the accreditation dispute, irreparable harm has already been done. The harsh treatment of the wushu trio has once again exposed the hollowness of China’s appeals to India to deepen bilateral ties.
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