new delhi indias 12member wushu teams trip to chengdu china for the world university games was called off late on wednesday night after the chinese embassy in delhi issued stapled visas to three female athletes hailing from arunachal pradesh nyeman wangsu onilu tega and mepung lamgu this prompted an angry reaction from the ministry of external affairs mea which termed the move unacceptableaccording to sources the wushu contingent comprising eight athletes was scheduled to leave for china on a cathay pacific flight late on wednesday night from the igi airport here they were booked on a delhihong kongchengdu route however when the team reached the immigration check at the igi the officers posted there objected to the stapled visas being issued to three arunachal players and refused clearance to the entire contingent from boarding the aircraftthe coaches and support staff reasoned with the officers that other members of the team had received normal visas it was only the players from arunachal who were given stapled visas after being denied permission the team returned from the airportthe three arunachal athletes are also part of indias official wushu contingent for the upcoming asian games to be held in the chinese city of hangzhou from september 23 to october 8 the issuance of stapled visas by the chinese embassy officials has put their participation in the asiad in doubt now and could lead to another round of diplomatic showdown between the two neighbours who have been at loggerheads over the chinese claim that arunachal is part of southern tibet an assertion strongly contested by indian authoritiesmea spokesperson arindam bagchi during his weekly media briefing on thursday said that india reserves the right to suitably respond to such actions it has come to our notice that stapled visas were issued to some of our citizens representing the country in an international sporting event in china this is unacceptable and we have lodged our strong protest with the chinese side reiterating our consistent position on the matter and india reserves the right to suitably respond to such actions bagchi saida stapled visa is not stamped directly into the passport of the applicant but instead is attached to the passport with a staplelater the government decided to cancel the teams travel to the multisport event after the mea examined the matter internallythe team was selected by the association of indian universities aiu an organisation of universities in the country including central state institutes of national importance and deemed universities the aiu had applied for visas on july 17 but the three arunachal athletes documents werent accepted the aiu was asked by the embassy officials to resubmit their documents following which application for fresh visas was applied on july 24 on july 26 the three athletes were issued stapled visas which the indian government has objected to