EXPLAINER: India isn't sending its top diplomat in Beijing to the Winter Olympics after a Chinese soldier wounded in a 2020 deadly border clash between the countries carried the symbolic torch. Its sole participant, from Kashmir, will ski in the Games.
The decision to field Qi as a torchbearer was swiftly denounced by the Indian government, which accused Beijing of politicizing the games.
China and India share a disputed border, called the Line of Actual Control, that separates Chinese- and Indian-held territories from the high cold-desert region of Ladakh to India’s eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. In 1962, this dispute resulted in an armed conflict that ended with a fragile truce. Since then, troops from opposing sides have guarded the undefined mountain border area but agreed not to attack each other with firearms.
Politically, the tensions have been equally simmering, and top diplomats from both countries have often traded barbs.India will, however, participate in the games. Its sole sportsperson at the Winter Olympics, Arif Khan, is a skier from Indian-controlled Kashmir, and he is reportedly taking part in the opening ceremony.
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