CCP Pressures Legislators From Multiple Countries to Skip Taiwan Summit

Lawmakers from at least five countries have said that the Chinese communist regime pressured them not to participate in an annual China-related summit in Taiwan. Eight lawmakers from Bolivia, Bosnia, Colombia, North Macedonia, and Slovakia were contacted by phone or email by diplomatic officials from the Chinese regime before their departures to Taiwan for the July summit. These officials also put forward urgent meeting requests that conflicted with the lawmakers’ travel plans. Organizers of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), said the move by Beijing was “a clear attempt to intimidate and dissuade them from traveling” to the event. “The PRC’s [People’s Republic of China’s] actions around IPAC’s Summit are yet another example of their brazen efforts to curtail other nations’ democratic privileges and negate Taiwan’s rights to engage in legitimate diplomatic exchanges,” the alliance said in a statement on July 28....