A long-standing border dispute between India and China has left three Indian martial arts competitors stranded at home and unable to make it to the Asian Games in Hangzhou, while sparking a diplomatic row Friday between the two countries.
The three women wushu athletes are from India's eastern Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims in its entirety. Unlike the rest of India's athletes competing at this year's games who were given Asian Games badges that also serve as visas to enter China, the three were given visas stapled to their passports.
In July, the same athletes did not compete at the World University Games in Chengdu, China, because they were given similar visas. But disputes over the long border between the two Asian giants run deep, with the countries fighting a war over it in 1962.
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