NEW DELHI -- India's envoy to China will not attend the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, a day after China honored a military commander involved in the violent 2020 Galwan Valley clash as a torchbearer of the event.
"It is indeed regrettable that the Chinese side has chosen to politicize an event like the Olympics," Arindam Bagchi, spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs, told a media briefing in response to questions on the issue. "I wish to inform that our charge d'affaires of the embassy of India in Beijing will not be attending the opening or the closing ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics."
