Panama's National Assembly and Taiwan's Legislative Yuan successfully established the first pro-Taiwan group in history; despite Beijing's attempts to coerce lawmakers into leaving IPAC, 46 lawmakers ultimately joined.
IPAC executive director Pei Lunde pointed out that Legislative Yuan President Han Kuo-yu recently led a delegation to the UK and refused to meet with IPAC during the trip, and revealed that the alliance had invited the Kuomintang multiple times without receiving any response, sparking outside doubts about the pan-Blue camp's stance.
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) once held its annual summit in Taipei. Luke de Pulford recalled that he had sent multiple invitations to the Kuomintang (KMT) at the time, but received no response.