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US lawmakers slam China for picking PLA soldier involved in Galwan clash as torchbearer for Winter Olympics
Updated On: 04 February, 2022 01:04 PM IST | Washington | PTI
Republican Senator Jim Risch, a Ranking Member of the powerful US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also said that the US will continue to support the sovereignty of India
Torch bearers exchange the Olympic Flame at the Badaling Great Wall on the second day of the torch relay in Beijing on February 3, 2022, a day before the start of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Photo/AFP
Top US lawmakers on Thursday described as "shameful" and "deliberately provocative" China picking a PLA soldier, who was part of the military command that attacked Indian soldiers in the Galwan Valley in 2020, as a torchbearer for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Republican Senator Jim Risch, a Ranking Member of the powerful US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also said that the US will continue to support the sovereignty of India.
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