House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) condemned the Chinese regime for gross human rights violations on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. “If we do not speak out against human rights violations in China because of commercial interests, we lose all moral authority to speak out against human rights violations anywhere,” Pelosi said. The remarks came during a Feb. 3 meeting of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), a bipartisan congressional body established in 2000 to report annually on developments concerning human rights and the rule of law in China. Pelosi and other lawmakers present also accused the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of turning a blind eye to genocide and other human rights abuses committed by China’s ruling communist regime. “Now the IOC, aided by corporate sponsors, once again turns a blind eye with the 2022 Winter Olympics just to bolster their bottom line,” Pelosi said. Likewise, Commission Chair Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) referred …