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“[Malawian politicians] wrote us a letter effectively leaving IPAC, which looked like it had been dictated by the embassy of the People's Republic of China.”      Following the annual Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China Summit earlier this month, TaiwanPlus News spoke with the organiztation’s executive director Luke de Pulford about how China has pressured participants to withdraw from the international group.        “[Malawian politicians] wrote us a letter effectively leaving IPAC, which looked like it had been dictated by the embassy of the People's Republic of China.”      Following the annual Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China Summit earlier this month, TaiwanPlus News spoke with the organiztation’s executive director Luke de Pulford about how China has pressured participants to withdraw from the international group.          Reporter: Cadence Quaranta   Video Editor: Alison Nguyen      #TaiwanPlusNews #IPAC #China #Taiwan    Reporter: Cadence Quaranta   Video Editor: Alison Nguyen      #TaiwanPlusNews #IPAC #China #Taiwan

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00:00We heard fairly early on that Malawi had come under pressure from the PRC, but not the politicians

00:06directly. It was actually the Malawian government. It was the presidential office who had heard

00:12directly from the government of the People's Republic of China who had threatened them.

00:17And they had indicated that the presence of the Malawian president in China would not be welcome

00:24unless the two co-chairs for Malawi for IPAC left the network. So we then heard from our Malawian

00:33politicians who confirmed that they had indeed been under pressure to leave. And they wrote us a letter

00:39effectively leaving IPAC, which looked like it had been dictated by the embassy of the People's

00:47Republic of China because it contained language in it about the one China principle and particularly

00:53mentioned Taiwan. There were many other attempts at coercing IPAC members. Before the Taipei summit

01:00took place, somehow China got hold of our delegates list. So everybody that we were going to invite

01:06to the summit. And in the days leading up to the summit, they contacted lawmakers in 11 countries

01:12to try to pressure them to stop them from going to Taipei. But more recently, the PRC has been on

01:18more of a charm offensive, and they're wanting to speak to our members. And they're wanting to draw them into

01:24slightly more routine, quasi diplomatic exchanges in order to try to discover what they're up to, and exert pressure

01:33in the usual way, you know, through bilateral meetings, as opposed to direct coercion, which is what IPAC has

01:39experienced too much of, I think.

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