IPAC Criticizes Beijing for Intimidating Lawmakers After Summit in Taiwan

An international group of lawmakers has condemned communist China for using “direct and indirect” coercive measures against those who took part in a recent summit in Taiwan. The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), an alliance of more than 200 lawmakers from 40 countries that focus on confronting the Chinese regime’s malign activities, such as human rights abuses, held a summit in Taipei at the end of July. The event was attended by 49 IPAC members from 24 countries, marking the largest delegation of foreign parliamentary members to visit the self-ruled island. Before the summit, the IPAC revealed that Beijing tried to stop IPAC members from traveling to Taiwan through coercion and other acts of interference. Some of those who went to the Taipei summit have since been targeted in their home countries by Chinese authorities....