Readers comment on the expulsion of Zhao Wei, plus other letters to the editor for May 10: ‘The Prime Minister essentially had to be dragged into acknowledging that something untoward was up’

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Open this photo in gallery: Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei was expelled by the Canadian government this week.Easy Media Persona non grata Re “Canada declares Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei ‘persona non grata’ over foreign interference” (May 9): With the tardy expulsion of a Chinese diplomat, the Prime Minister essentially had to be dragged into acknowledging that something untoward was up behind all the Globe and Mail articles, committee questioning and his own lukewarm appointment of a special rapporteur into the question of Chinese political interference. No such “careful consideration of all factors” went into the PM’s initial lashing out at political...