The International Olympic Committee (IOC) should never have allowed the Chinese regime to host the Winter Olympic Games, according to Andrew Bremberg, a former U.S. representative to the Office of the U.N. “What else does a country need to do in terms of terrible human rights abuses and bad behavior to merit a response from international organizations like the IOC?” Bremberg said. Bremberg, who’s currently the president and CEO of the Washington-based Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, made the remarks during a recent interview with EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders.” “It’s incredibly distressing … to see the organization allow itself to be used yet again as a vehicle for the CCP’s [Chinese Communist Party] propaganda,” Bremberg said. “That is what we saw that happened in 2008, both from a domestic and international perspective.” When Beijing hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 2008, many criticized the IOC’s decision, given the regime’s severe …
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