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Highlights
- According to BBC, China has issued no tickets to the common public, but only to the members of the Communist Party and the state-run company officials.
- Diplomats from around a dozen countries, including the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, are boycotting the Games.
- Beijing is the only city in the world to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
Diplomatic boycotts and protests marred the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on Friday. Senior officials from around a dozen countries, including the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, kept away from the opening ceremony in Beijing on Friday to oppose the alleged human rights violations against minority Muslims in the country.
India joined the boycott at the last moment after China picked a PLA commander who led the attack on Indian soldiers in the Galwan Valley in 2020 as a torchbearer for the event.
The chargé d'affaires of the Indian embassy will not attend the event’s opening and closing ceremony, the External Affairs Ministry’s spokesperson Arindam Bagchi on Thursday said.
Only one athlete from India is reportedly participating in the games.
China has also been criticized for implementing harsh Covid-19 rules that restricted most foreign visitors and Chinese citizens from attending the games.
According to BBC, China has issued no tickets to the common public, but only to the members of the Communist Party and the state-run company officials.
The Winter Olympics will close on February 20.
Beijing is the only city in the world to host both the Summer and Winter Games.
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Bob Menendez, the chairman of the US senate foreign relations committee, has praised India’s diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics. He said his country stands with India and other nations in the diplomatic boycott.
China dismissed the boycott call as a political stunt.
International human rights groups and the western governments have accused Beijing of "genocide" in the western Xinjiang region. China denies these allegations, saying its centers reeducate radical Muslims.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison had recently said his government is ready for talks over the Uighur issue, but China consistently refused it.
