Katniss Everdeen fights ‘tributes' from 11 other districts in a game of death to emerge victorious in Suzanne Collins best seller ‘The Hunger Games'. The Hunger Games is set in a world in the future, which has the Capitol City surrounded by twelve poorer districts in the fictious nation of Panem. The Capitol City is rich and technologically advanced. However, the districts have challenges and remain subservient to the Capitol City. The Capitol City uses habitants of the less privileged districts as disposable entities in the annual ‘Hunger Games' contest, telecast live to entertain its citizens. If we scope back to the present day from sometime in the future, we can witness the Winter Olympics being conducted in Beijing in a similar setting. When the Wuhan Virus was unleashed on an unsuspecting world in 2020, the CCP under Xi Jinping went on an overdrive to initiate a coverup unlike any the world has ever witnessed. At the outset, the WHO was coerced into rechristening the virus as COVID-19. Any references to the Wuhan Virus were scrubbed off the internet, particularly in China. Thereafter, all requests to have a through investigation into the origins of the virus were scoffed and rubbished by the CCP as efforts to malign China; whilst the origins would have certainly helped in understanding the virus much better and addressing it in a more cogent manner. Subsequently when some of the nations insisted on identifying the source of the virus, a trade war was unleashed on them by the CCP to cripple their economies. All this while the CCP shutdown China to the outside world. In shutting down China, the CCP instituted draconian measures to keep a check on its citizens. Initiating and instituting them is not a challenge for the CCP. The prime reason being these measures and more have been used by the CCP in spearheading a genocide in full world view with not many taking up the cause of the oppressed Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The Uyghurs have had their way of life, religion and very existence itself being trampled upon by a draconian regime personally overseen by Xi. The way Xi has treated Uyghurs has an uncanny parallel to the middle of the last century to another authoritarian figure who unleashed a similar genocide on an ethnoreligious group. Therefore, it will not be amiss to rechristen Xi as Xitler. Most authoritarian rulers are megalomaniacs. Their condition makes them suffer from delusions of absolute power and greatness. They are besotted by grandiose projects too. Xi is no different. His grandiose project is Winter Olympics 2022. The world has had close to six million deaths due to the Wuhan virus. Similarly, there are countless Uyghurs who have been killed by the draconian CCP in Xinjiang. The blood of all these people is the river on which the Winter Olympics 2022 boat is trying to stay afloat! So, rather than Winter Olympics 2022, the correct name is Blood Games 22. The Blood Games are a farce to show an outward appearance of normalcy in a police state where everyone is being monitored and coerced. To start with, there are many countries that have initiated Diplomatic boycott of the games for gross violation of human rights and politicisation of the noble spirit of the Olympics. Also, there no spectators of their own will/ accord. They have been ‘selected', purportedly to ensure there is no outbreak of the Wuhan Virus. The very few overseas media outlets allowed to cover the games are being constantly harassed and not being allowed to interact with anyone freely, lest the reality of the Blood Games spills out and the common Chinese share the reality they are living in. There are some like Swedish journalist Philip Gadd who was whisked off to isolation in an ambulance on arrival under the pretext of being positive for the Wuhan virus. And most importantly, the athletes are the worst affected. The athletes are being kept under extremely trying circumstances and harassed. For starters, over 350 foreign athletes, officials and personnel who went to China for the Blood Games have been isolated and have minimal chances of participating in the games, which is the very reason they went to that country to start with. Further every 24 hours, athletes who have been permitted to participate are required to take a test for the Wuhan Virus. If they refuse, they are harassed and face restrictions. The condition of those in isolation is appalling, with reports of them being starved of proper nutrition (extremely essential for athletes competing at the Olympics), inedible food and dirty rooms. And the irony of all this is the International Olympics Committee (IOC) is siding with Beijing, for it is they who are bankrolling the IOC to ensure the games are held. There are some, like Polish short track speed skater Natalia Maliszewska and Finnish ice hockey player Marko Anttila, whose travails have come to public attention. The CCP has spread a dragnet, like the trawls and hooks its IUU fishing boats use around the world, to ensure the Blood Games go on uninterrupted. The sole reason, to ensure Xitler is considered as the great leader who ensured conduct of the games, despite the world enduring a pandemic, a pandemic unleashed by him and his party on an unsuspecting world. These Blood Games will certainly earn a name in history, but for all the wrong reasons! (Author and columnist Binay Kumar Singh can be reached on Twitter @BinayBharat. All views expressed are personal.)