2022 Winter Olympics is scheduled to be held in Beijing from February 4. Ahead of the big sports event, the shadow looms over its successful organisation due to global condemnation over its repressive policies on Tibetans, Uyghurs and coronavirus pandemic.

Natasha Kassam, an analyst at the Lowy Institute and a former Australian diplomat in China said, "The likelihood of a 2022 Olympic boycott is increasing by the day. ":Facing not just anger over the treatment of Tibetans, but outright claims of "genocide" against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China's leaders may find it far harder to surf the wave of criticism this year than in 2008.  Kasam said that public opinion around the world has soured towards China, as grim realities of the Party-state become common knowledge. The level of public concern about human rights abuses in China in 2022 dwarfs the outrage around the 2008 Games.

Meanwhile, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is not pretending these Games stand a chance of influencing China's political philosophy. It said that the Olympic Games are not about politics.

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