CCP Pressures Legislators From Multiple Countries to Skip Taiwan Summit

The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China said the move by Beijing was ‘in a clear attempt to intimidate and dissuade them from traveling’ to the event.

British lawmakers Tim Loughton (L), Sir Iain Duncan Smith (C), and Stewart McDonald (R) during an IPAC press conference in London on March 25, 2024. Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Lawmakers from at least five countries say 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. The officials also put forward urgent meeting requests that conflicted with the lawmakers’ travel plans.