Lawmakers from at least six countries, including three in Europe, said Chinese diplomats were pressuring them not to attend a conference in Taiwan, in what they described as efforts to isolate the self-governed island. Politicians in Slovakia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Bolivia and Colombia, said they were getting texts, calls and urgent requests for meetings that would conflict with their plans to travel to Taipei. The conference begins on Monday and is being held by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), a group of hundreds of lawmakers from 35 countries c…
