On February 4, China will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. For sixteen days, Beijing will convene the greatest athletes in the world and showcase their sporting exploits while the eyes of billions from around the world fixate on China. For a Communist regime that successfully lured its third Olympics in fourteen years, the field of sport is ideal terrain for state propaganda. For activists gruelling to bring attention to the plight of Uyghur and ethnic Muslims, the Olympics provides a much needed light to a crisis that has deftly been buried in the dark. Despite the politicisation of the Winter …