[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text dp_text_size=”size-4″]NEW DELHI: China announced on Friday that it will not attend the G20 tourism summit that will be held the following week in the disputed region of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
In preparation for the G20 summit in New Delhi in September, India, which is serving as the organization’s chair this year, has hosted a number of meetings across the nation.
Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, declared that China “is firmly opposed to holding any kind of G20 meetings in disputed territory, and will not attend such meetings.”
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In 2019, India unjustly divided the state of IIOJK, which has a majority of Muslims, to form the two federal regions of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Ladakh is largely under Chinese influence.
Since a military confrontation in Ladakh in 2020 that resulted in 24 soldiers being killed, relations between New Delhi and Beijing have been strained.
On May 22–24, Srinagar, the IIOJK’s summer capital, will play host to a meeting of the G20’s working group on tourism.
Pakistan has also voiced its opposition to India’s choice to host the G20 summit in occupied Kashmir.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
