A day before the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, India announced a last-minute diplomatic boycott. Unlike the other countries that also declared diplomatic boycotts, India’s decision occurred not in response to the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) human rights violations, but to the selection of a former People’s Liberation Army (PLA) regimental commander who fought in the June 2020 Galwan Valley border clashes as an Olympic torchbearer.
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